Scope and Contents

Contents: Snakes -- Precious stones -- Collection of miscellaneous adages -- Physical signs (hair, nose, sneeze, ear, mole, nails, feet) -- Marriage -- Insects and worms -- Fowls -- Cats -- Dogs -- White horses -- Amphibians -- Plant and tree lore -- Dreams -- Goodluck signs and charms and tail pieces -- Omen of death -- Bad luck -- Making a wish -- To ward off bad luck -- Witches -- Devil lore.

Scope and Contents Contents: Jack Riley (Songs of the sea) -- Will the Warrener (Humor and fun) -- Dinah (Tragedy and sorrow) -- The banks of the Sweet Dundee (Criminal and jailhouse songs) -- Wearing the willow (Humor and fun) -- Springfield Mountain (Humor and fun) -- The merry-hearted milkmen (Love) -- She had not rowed (Tragic love) -- Lord Lovel (Tragic love) -- The fair Imogene (Tragic love) -- Lord Thomas (Tragic love) -- Mistress Malone (Love) -- The mistletoe bough (Tragic love) -- The pretty milkmaid...

Scope and Contents Contents: The soldier's daughter -- The last fierce charge -- The pardon came too late -- Just as the sun went down -- The dying soldier -- The happy day has come, Kate -- On the field of battle -- Soldier's funeral -- Sleeping for the flag -- Just after the battle -- Just after the battle -- Just before the battle, Mother -- Break the news to Mother -- James Bird -- The soldier -- My sweetheart went down with the Maine -- A couple of relics from the War of 1812 (no titles) -- All quiet...

Scope and Contents

Contents: Jesse James -- Texas Rangers -- The cowboy -- The dying cowboy -- Bury me not on the prairie -- The horse wrangler -- Sam Bass -- Comanche Bill -- I want to be a cowboy -- Breaking in a tenderfoot -- Fragment IV -- Home, home on the range -- A cowboy song -- Fragments -- Brennan on the moor.

Scope and Contents

Contents: Seven long years -- Young Bendell -- Betty and the baby -- Charlie's town -- Charlestown -- The Boston burglar -- The rumseller or Old Jones -- The death of James A. Garfield -- Jack Williams -- Fuller and Warren -- Charles Guiteau or James A. Garfield -- The bamboo briars -- My father was a gambler -- Young McFee -- My name is John T. Williams -- Young widow -- Harry Clark or the Glennie Bank Robbery.

Scope and Contents Contents: Three little babes -- The Jamestown Flood -- The Milwaukee Fire -- The blind child -- Bring back my wandering boy -- Poor babes in the woods -- Only a dream -- Tale of a winter's night -- Johnny Sands -- The baggage coach ahead -- It was a lady's daughter -- The dying girl -- Lilly Dale -- The gambler's wife -- Johnny Randall -- Tilly -- A package of old letters -- Bring my harp to me again -- Two little boys -- Let the dead and the beautiful rest -- Are we forgotten when we are...

Scope and Contents

Contents: Little brown jug -- Down on the farm -- Old Farmer John -- The rich young farmer -- John the hired man -- The hayseed's reward -- Pastoral elegy -- In Springfield Mountain -- The mower -- One with no title -- Sweet fields of Viola -- Song sung by farm hands in 1850, Farmington, New Mexico -- The milk maid -- Uncle Sam's farm -- To be a farmer's boy -- Farmer's sons and daughters (not real title).

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Contents: Betsy from Pike -- The dreary Black Hills -- The little old sod shanty on the claim -- In the summer of Sixty -- Wait for the wagon -- Gypsey Davy -- Dakota land -- Cheyenne boys -- Starving to death on a govn't claim -- Joe Bowers -- Out West -- Jennie Wiley.

Scope and Contents Contents: My mountain home -- The old arm chair -- Dreaming of home -- The old wooden rocker -- Grandfather's clock -- Since my mother's dead and gone -- The old kitchen floor -- The sheriff's sale -- Shadows on the wall -- Welcome beautiful Christmas Day -- The wandering refugee -- Mother come, here's a home in the wainting West -- The dear old fireside -- Old England -- Be kind to the loved ones at home -- The vacant chair -- Sing me a song of the South -- My own native land -- Some day...