Note: Images of the original pages can be seen online at the Kentuckiana Digital Library (http://kdl.kyvl.org/) A SPRAY OF KENTUCKY PINE --Placed At The Feet Of The Dead Poet-- --James Whitcomb Riley-- By The Hand Of the Man From Down On The Farm-- --George Douglass Sherley --On The Banks Of Wolf Run-- --1916-- Second Edition From Ye Olden Printe Shope-- --James M. Byrnes, Esquire-- On Ye Long Highway Called Shorte in Ye Goodly Towne Of Lexington Kentucky The Inscription Two-fold To The Dead: Reverently Inscribed --To the Indiana-Born World-Wide Poet-- --James Whitcomb Riley-- --This Spray Of Kentucky Pine-- To The Living: Also Lovingly Inscribed By The Man From Down On The Farm To The Dear Lady Here On The Banks Of Wolf Run --His Mother-- On Grateful Commemoration Of Her Eighty-Fifth Birthday August 20, 1916 The Prelude --A Note Explanatory-- With James Whitcomb Riley, some years ago. This Man From Down On The Farm, made a Reading Tour, of--in Population--more than one-half of this Imperial Republic, including the Cream of the Canadian Provinces. Of that Tour, at some other time, in some more leisurely hour, he desires, if able, to make a full and faithful Record. This, is but a humble Spray of Kentucky Pine, placed at the feet of the Dead Poet!