Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 467
, who, when he had beentreated to bread and cheese and cider, sang someof the songs of Robert Burns, which Whittierthen heard for the first time, and which he neverforgot. Coming to him thus as songs reachedthe people before printing was invented, throughgleemen and minstrels, their sweetness… … THE OLD SCHHOLHOlSF, HAVERHILL, MASS. tape, and cotton thread for my mother; jack-knives, razors, and soap for my father, and versesof his own composing, coarsely printed and illus-trated with rude wood-cuts, for the delectation ofthe younger branches of the family. No love-sickyouth could drown…
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