Holman Francis Day Biography
Holman Francis Day (1865-1935) was an American author, born at Vassalboro, Me., and a graduate of Colby College (class of 1887). In 1889-90 he was managing editor of the publications of the Union Publishing Company, Bangor, Me. He was also editor and proprietor of the Dexter, (Me.) Gazette, a special writer for the Lewiston, (Me.) Journal, Maine representative of the Boston Herald , and managing editor of the Lewiston Daily Sun. In 1901-04 he was military secretary to Gov. John F. Hill of Maine.
* Up in Maine (1901), verse
* Pine Tree Ballads (1902)
* Kin O'Ktaadn (1904)
* Squire Phin (1905; 1913), a novel dramatized as The Circus Man and produced in Chicago in 1909
* Rainy Day Railroad War (1906; 1913)
* The Eagle Badge (1908)
* King Spruce (1908)
* The Ramrodders (1910)
* The Skipper and the Skipped (1911)
* The Red Lane: A Romance of the Border (1912)
* The Landloper (1915)
* Along Came Ruth (play produced in New York, 1914)
* Blow the Man Down (1916)
* Where Your Treasure Is (1917)
* Kavanagh's Clare (1917)
* The Rider of the King Log (1919)
* When Egypt Went Broke (1920)
* All Wool Morrison (1921)
The clash and the clatter of mowing-machines
Float up where the old man stands and leans
His trembling hands on the worn old snath,
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Oh, we're getting under cover, for the 'sport' is on the way,
Pockets bulge with ammunition, and he's coming down to slay:
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Hear the chorus in that tie-up, runch, ger-
runch, and runch and runch!
---There's a row of honest critters! Does me
good to hear 'em munch.
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Cheerful crab was that old Posh,
Warn't afflicted much with dosh,
Fact, he worked round sawin' wood,
Earnin what few cents he could,
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Take a chair by the fireplace, mister. Pull up, s'r, pull up to the blaze!
Cheerfuler some than an air-tight, hey? Too many air-tights these days!
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