. Song of the cotton hoer, a poem. .f 3DEDICATION. To the honest, strong-armed andhard-laboring Poor Men, this Poem ismost sympathetically inscribed as atoken of friendship, on account of themany disadvantages, impositions andburdens under Avhich they are laboring;and as a token of a living hope thatthe time shall come when they willcast oft the burdens and impositions ofgovernment, monopolists, sharks andspeculators, and fix prices upon theirproducts and industry, in a just andequitable ratio, in comparison with thenon hard laboring and producingworlds charges for business, officialand profes
. Song of the cotton hoer, a poem. .f 3DEDICATION. To the honest, strong-armed andhard-laboring Poor Men, this Poem ismost sympathetically inscribed as atoken of friendship, on account of themany disadvantages, impositions andburdens under Avhich they are laboring;and as a token of a living hope thatthe time shall come when they willcast oft the burdens and impositions ofgovernment, monopolists, sharks andspeculators, and fix prices upon theirproducts and industry, in a just andequitable ratio, in comparison with thenon hard laboring and producingworlds charges for business, officialand professional services. Yours Faithfully, DAVID H. FOLK. Fkeestone Co., 1,1886. II ^ s mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. mmmBimm I H ^ B i M SOM OF THE COTTOS HOEK. TIME—MORNING. Now up the row. And watch the hoe,i\.nd now on tother coming. Im all the time A thinking rhyme,Or gain and loss Im summing. Oh! how I need (Hoe out that weed !)Some ten or fifty dollars; And if I make. For grasss sake,Ill buy some hoes and collars. And as for land. Black, loamy sand,Ive got as good as any, And with some help (You little whelp!)Ill make as much as many. wmmmmmiJiTimmfjmmnmm ^DiojiiimiDaiJJioiDHJiDXimmEsongofcottonhoer00folk
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