OTHER WORKS BY
L. ALLEN HARKER

JAN AND HER JOB
THE FFOLLIOTS OF REDMARLEY
A ROMANCE OF THE NURSERY
MASTER AND MAID
MISS ESPERANCE AND MR. WYCHERLY
MR. WYCHERLY'S WARDS

JOHN MURRAY, LONDON

TO

THE COUNTESS BATHURST

Dear to you, too, the small "uplandish" town,

The steep stone roofs, the graceful gabled street,

The great beech woods, the rolling purple down,

The golden fields that shimmer in the heat

With molten glow of buttercups ablaze—

Dear to you, too.

Dear to you, too, the folk, slow-spoken, kind,

Wise with a mother-wisdom not of books;

The sturdy "Cotsal-bred" of cautious mind,

That judges men by "doin's, not by looks,"

With sapient nods and trenchant homely phrase—

Dear to you, too.

And since you love them well—people and land—

I bring you stories of them—just a few

Old folk and young—in hope you'll let them stand

With others that I wot of dear to you.

How happy should these prove in future days—

Dear to you, too.

FOREWORD

"I'm homesick for my hills again—

My hills again!

To see above the Severn plain,

Unscabbarded against the sky,...

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