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the University of Texas.
For three years Sheldon Fellow from Harvard University for the Collection of American Ballads; Ex-President
American Folk-Lore Society. Collector of
“Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier
Ballads”; joint author with Dr.
H. Y. Benedict of “The
Book of Texas.”
WITH A FOREWORD BY
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1919
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
“THAT THESE DEAR FRIENDS I LEAVE BEHIND
MAY KEEP KIND HEARTS’ REMEMBRANCE OF THE LOVE WE HAD.”
Solon.
In affectionate gratitude to a group of men, my intimate friends during College days (brought under one roof by a “Fraternity”), whom I still love not less but more,
Will Prather, Hammett Hardy, Penn Hargrove and Harry Steger, of precious and joyous memory;
Norman Crozier, not yet quite emerged from Presbyterianism;
Eugene Barker, cynical, solid, unafraid;
“Cap’en” Duval, a gentleman of Virginia, sah;
Ed Miller, red-headed and royal-hearted;
Bates MacFarland, calm and competent without camouflage;
Jimmie Haven, who has put ’em over every good day since;
Charley Johnson, “the Swede” — the fattest, richest and dearest of the bunch;
Edgar Witt, whose loyal devotion and pertinacious energy built the “Frat” house;
Roy Bedichek, too big for any job he has yet tackled;
“Curley” Duncan, who possesses all the virtues of the old time cattleman and none of the vices of the new;
Rom Rhome, the quiet and canny counter of coin;
Gavin Hunt, student and lover of all things beautiful;
Dick Kimball, the soldier; every inch of him a handsome man;
Alex and Bruce and Dave and George and “Freshman” Mathis and Clarence, the six Freshmen we “took in”; while Ike MacFarland, Alfred Pierce Ward, and Guy and Charlie Witt were still in the process of assimilation,—