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Title: Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse
Author: Joseph C. Lincoln
Release Date: February 28, 2004 [EBook #11351]
Language: English
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[Illustration: "He's a hero born and bred,
but it hasn't swelled his head."]
Cape Cod Ballads
and Other Verse
By
Joseph C. Lincoln
With Drawings by Edward W. Kemble
1902
To My Wife
This book is affectionately dedicated
Preface
A friend has objected to the title of this book
on the ground that, as many of the characters
and scenes described are to be found in almost
any coast village of the United States, the title might,
with equal fitness, be "New Jersey Ballads," or "Long
Island Ballads," or something similar.
The answer to this is, simply, that while "School-committee Men" and "Village Oracles" are, doubtless,
pretty much alike throughout Yankeedom, the
particular specimens here dealt with w