(1903) Dedicated To Francis Bartlett These miscellaneous notes and essays are called Ponkapog Papers not simply because they chanced, for the most part, to be written within the limits of the old Indian Reservation, but, rather, because there is something typical of their unpretentiousness in the modesty with which Ponkapog assumes to being even a village. The little Massachusetts settlement, nestled under the wing of the Blue Hills, has no illusions concerning itself, never mistakes the cackle of the bourg for the sound that echoes round the world, and no more thinks of rivalling great centres of human activity than these slight papers dream of inviting comparison between themselves and important pieces of literature. Therefore there seems something especially appropriate in the geographical title selected, and if the author's choice of name need further excuse, it is to be found in the alluring alliteration lying ready at his hand. REDMAN FARM, Ponkapog, 1903.
And What Came of It (A LITERARY EPISODE.) (1857) The little dogs and all, see, they bark at me!--King Lear. TO C. L. F., The Noble Merchant And The Good Friend, This Burlesque Of Things In General, Is Respectfully Inscribed.
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