Epigraph
Stanwood, Bar Harbor, Maine.
September 8th, 1892. }
Hon. T. B. Searight,
Uniontown, Pa.
Dedication
My Dear Friend:—
I have received the sketches of the “Old Pike” regularly and have as regularly read them, some of them more than once, especially where you come near the Monongahela on either side of it, and thus strike the land of my birth and boyhood. I could trace you all the way to Washington, at Malden, at Centreville, at Billy Greenfield’s in Beallsville, at Hillsboro (Billy Robinson was a familiar name), at Dutch Charley Miller’s, at Ward’s, at Pancake, and so on—familiar names, forever endeared to my memory. I cherish the desire of riding over the “Old Pike” with you, but I am afraid we shall contemplate it as a scheme never to be realized.
Very sincerely,
Your friend,
JAMES G. BLAINE.