Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, David Newman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net OF THIS LITTLE VOLUME TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES HAVE BEEN MADE YOUNG EWING ALLISON --_A REMINISCENCE_ [Illustration: _Photograph By Cusick._ Young Ewing Allison] "The man who wrote such a poem should not be unknelled, unhonored and unsung." --_Walt Mason._ THE DEAD MEN'S SONG: BEING THE STORY OF A POEM AND A REMINISCENT SKETCH OF ITS AUTHOR YOUNG EWING ALLISON TOGETHER WITH A BROWSE THROUGH OTHER GEMS OF HIS AND RECOLLECTIONS OF OLDER DAYS BY HIS FRIEND AND ASSOCIATE CHAMPION INGRAHAM HITCHCOCK _Incorporated with which are Facsimiles of Certain Interesting Manuscripts_ LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY 1914 COPYRIGHT BY CHAMPION INGRAHAM HITCHCOCK 1914 IN THESE PAGES A WORD SAID BEFOREHAND Explaining How a Certain "Chap" Lost His Temper and Found It Again Very Quickly. DERELICT, By Young Ewing Allison A Reminiscence of Stevenson's "Treasure Island" Based On the Quatrain of Captain Billy Bones. PICTURING THE INDIVIDUAL With Some Observations About A Man Whom I Have the Honor to Call Friend. MAN AND NEWSPAPER MAN A Peep Into Personal Records of the Past With Some Comments of a Current Nature. JUST BROWSING AROUND Excursions Into the "Higher Altitudes" With Something About the Books Up There. IN THE OPERATIC FIELD Being a Look Behind the Scenes With Some Glimpses of a Pursuing Jinx. BALLAD OF DEAD MEN The Same Being Mostly About Able Pirates And the Very Able Descendant of a Pirate. IF THERE IS CONTROVERSY! Just a Few Bits From the Olden Days With Some Comment On a Certain Critic. SOME CLIPPINGS--AND A LETTER Which Tells How One Who Did Not Know Set Himself Up As a "Chanty" Authority. YO-HO-HO AND A BOTTLE OF RUM Discussed As a Chanty Entertainingly By a Mariner and With a Deep-Sea Flavor. SUPPLEMENTING _the_ TEXT YOUNG EWING ALLISON (By Cusick) _Frontispiece._ A "Sitting" for Which Photograph Forms A Story Known Only to This Writer. DERELICT _Illuminating the Poem_ Facsimiles of the Original Illustrations in _Rubric_ (Vol. 1, No. 1, 1901) to Which Certain Piratical Tints Have Been Added. "A TEMPTING BAUBLE" Said "Bauble" Being a Check (to Cover the Cost of a Certain Book) Which Allison Returned in a Frame With a Few Comments of His Own. YOUNG E. ALLISON (By Wyncie King) _Louisville Herald_ Demon Caricaturist's Conception of a Pirate's Poet, With a Cigarette Replacing the Customary "Stogie." THE INFALLIBLE (By Charles Dana Gibson) A "Type" in Every Old Daily Newspaper Office, Reproduced from _Century_ (October, 1889), Illustrating "The Longworth Mystery." BOOK OF "THE OGALLALLAS"