Excerpt from Oyhood Days: And Other VersesI've been thinking of my boyhood, and the tasks I had to do Shucking corn for three old horses, and of mules a score or two, Also cows and calves by dozens - just the number I've forgot While the hogs, by tens and twenties, filled a good two-acre lot.Then I carried out the fodder, and the corn and shucks and hay, Filled the troughs with drinking water from a spring not far away.Next I cut a stack of stovewood, turned the grindstone for an hour, Till my eyes had left their sockets and my arms had lost their power.Then I weeded out the garden, pulled the purslane for the hogs, Drove the cattle to the pasture, carried breakfast to the dogs, Brought the roasting ears for dinner, cut the grass upon the lawn, Never stopped a blessed minute from the time I rose at dawn.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.