Sunny Ducrow (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Sunny Ducrow Here, in my English home, I sit, pen in hand, yet a little hesitating, greatly anxious, vainly trying to call to mind some high-sounding phrases, some eloquent utterances, with which I may make appeal to the great heart of the American people, to whom I am unknown and a stranger, and yet I take comfort in the thought that to the stranger the kindly American was ever hospitable. So dear unknown American reader, I claim from you, with confidence, your hospitality, and still though I am but a stranger, I feel that I may perhaps have a little claim on your generosity through one dead these many years, one very dear to me in life, dear always in my memory. He lived among you for many years, when the nineteenth century was yet in her teens, he sang of you and of your country songs that many of you remember hearing your Fathers sing: these old songs with their pleasant memories, To the West, Oh Woodman Spare that Tree, A Life on the Ocean Wave, Cheer, Boys, Cheer, Mighty Niagara, and many and many more. And because he, my dear old grandfather, Henry Russell, knew you and loved you and lived among you for so long, perhaps I feel no such great stranger after all. This little book of mine is a simple story, aspiring to no great literary flight, yet perhaps as you turn its pages, it may here and there win a smile from your lips, perhaps - and to me, a greater triumph - it may to some kind eye bring a tear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.