The Road and the Roadside

Project Gutenberg's The Road and the Roadside, by Burton Willis Potter This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Road and the Roadside Author: Burton Willis Potter Release Date: April 25, 2009 [EBook #28607] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ROAD AND THE ROADSIDE *** Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) T H E R O A D AND T H E R O A D S I D E . By BURTON WILLIS POTTER. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 1886. Copyright, 1886, By Burton Willis Potter. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. TO THE HONORABLE JOHN E. RUSSELL, SECRETARY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, These Pages are Respectfully Inscribed, AS A TOKEN OF MY LOVE AND ESTEEM FOR HIM AS A TRUE FRIEND, A CLASSICAL SCHOLAR, AND AN ELOQUENT ORATOR, WHOSE SPEECHES AND WRITINGS HAVE AIDED POWERFULLY IN BRINGING ABOUT A REVIVAL OF AGRICULTURE, AND IN CREATING AMONG THE PEOPLE A LOVE OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL LIFE. Transcriber's Note: The asterisks in footnotes 89 and 92 have do not have corresponding references in the text. PREFACE.