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Title: Summerfield
or, Life on a Farm

Author: Day Kellogg Lee

Release Date: December 12, 2007 [eBook #23832]

Language: English

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SUMMERFIELD;

or

Life on a Farm

by

DAY KELLOGG LEE

"When now the cock, the ploughman's horn,
Calls forth the lily-wristed morn,
Then to thy cornfields thou dost go,
Which, though well-soil'd, yet thou dost know
That the best compost for the lands
Is the wise master's feet and hands."
--HERRICK

Second Thousand.

Auburn:
Derby and Miller.
1852.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by
Day K. Lee,
In the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New York.

TO

MY VENERATED FATHER;

A

PIONEER OF THE LAKE COUNTRY;

WHO

SOWED TRUTH AND GOODNESS IN THE SPRING-TIME,

AND

REAPS PEACE AND HONOR IN THE AUTUMN

OF HIS LIFE;

THIS VOLUME IS WITH LOVE INSCRIBED.

INTRODUCTION.

BY THE AUTHOR OF "GOLDEN STEPS," &c.

Works of fiction are to be approved when
they subserve the interests of morality and
religion. The Scriptures of the Old and New
Testaments--the ancient classics--the most
distinguished productions of modern ages--afford
striking illustrations of the beautiful and
instructive lessons of virtue and piety, which may be
conveyed in fabulous narration. The Parables
of the Saviour; Milton's Paradise Lost;
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, are samples of
salutary and saving truth exhibited in stories of the
imagination.

I have made myself familiar with the contents
of the following tale, from the manuscript
copy. The aim of the author is of the highest
description. He endeavors to instil into the
minds of his readers a lesson of the utmost
practical importance, intimately connected with the
experience of every-day life. He would instruct
them of the wisdom of being contented with a
useful and productive occupation, which is
honorable in its character, healthful in its nature,
and conducive to the we