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Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems

LibriVox recording of Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems by Alfred Castner King. Read in English by Andrew Gaunce; Cavaet; Joebin; Alan Mapstone; Ethan; George Emerson; Larry Wilson; Sawyer Rewis; Christine Peterson; Stefan Von Blon; Denise Ray; Ellies "The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded literature, unless it should contain something in the nature of a deviation from beaten literary paths. Whether the reading public will regard this as such or not is a question for the future to determine, as every book is a creature of circumstance, and at the date of its publication an algebraic unknown quantity. It was not the original intention of the author to publish any of his effusions in collective form until more mature years and riper judgment should better qualify him for the task of composition, and should enable him to still further pursue the important studies of etymology, rhetoric, Latin and Greek, and complete the education which youthful environment denied. On the 17th of March, A.D. 1900, occurred an accident in the form of a premature mining explosion which banished the light of the

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