Subject: happy? - Sept 25 (Falls At Kingsey)
From:
Abby Sale
Date: 25 Sep 05 - 09:59 AM
3. In Eighteen hundred fifteen, September twenty-fifth, A raft of oars and timber Was there turn'd down adrift. Three men to guard this lumber And keep it in their view, Assay'd to follow after, By paddling a Canoe. 4. But soon they were turned over By a prodigious swell, And Towne alone escaped The heavy news to tell. He saw the others floating His anguish who can tell? Could yield them no assistance; Now take a kind farewell. "Ye Roaring Falls At Kingsey," An early broadside. May not actually have gone into tradition, but may be the earliest known song relating to river-driving lumber. Shows Maine men engaged in driving ton-timber (square cut) rafts on Canadian waters. Minstrelsy of Maine; Fannie Eckstorm; 1927 Copyright © 2005, Abby Sale - all rights reserved What are Happy's all about? See Clicky
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