Leedle Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems #233654

IT is with some misgivings that the author, at the solicita tion of many, perhaps over-zealous friends, has ventured to place this little volume before the public. The writer, moving only in the mercantile world, feels that he hasowan dered into forbidden ground, and craves the indulgence of the literati for these attempts to woo the Muse during the few leisure hours allowed to members of his vocation.