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Up in Maine: Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse
By Holman Day
Length4h 38m
About this audiobook
Discover the soul of New England through rhythmic, evocative poetry that brings the rugged landscape and its hardy inhabitants to vivid life. These verses paint authentic portraits of farmers, woodsmen, and sailors weathering the harsh seasons with stoic humor and quiet grace. Woven with local dialect and sharp observations, the stories celebrate the peculiar charm and resilient character of Yankee culture. It is a masterful, lyrical tribute to a bygone era of simple, tough living.
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GenrePoetry
Length4 hrs 38 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 8, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1AUNT SHAW’S PET JUG
26TAKIN’ COMFORT
2OLD BOGGS’S SLARNT
27EPHRUM KEPT THREE DOGS
3CY NYE, PREVARICATOR
28LAY OF DRIED-APPLE PIE: ONLY HELD HIS OWN
4UNCLE BENJY AND OLD CRANE
29GRAMPY SINGS A SONG
5“PLUG”
30UNCLE MICAJAH STROUT
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6THE SONG OF THE HARROW AND PLOW
31THE TRUE STORY OF A KICKER
7HOORAY FOR THE SEASON OF FAIRS
32MORAL.
8HAD A SET OF DOUBLE TEETH
33ZEK’L PRATT’S HARRYCANE
9GRAMPY’S LULLABY
34THOSE PICKLES OF MARM’S
10HOSKINS’S COW
35“THE MAN I KNEW I KILLED”
11AN OLD STUN’ WALL
36’LONG SHORE CRUISE OF THE “NANCY P.”
12THE STOCK IN THE TIE-UP
37TALE OF THE SEA-FARING MAN
13EPHRUM WADE’S STAND-BY IN HAYING
38CAP’N NUTTER OF THE “PUDDENTAME”
14RESURRECTION OF EPHRUM WAY
39GOOD-BY, LOBSTER
15LOOK OUT FOR YOUR THUMB
40CURE FOR HOMESICKNESS
16THE TRIUMPH OF MODEST MARIA
41ON THE OLD COAST TUB
17SON HAS GOT THE DEED
42TALE OF THE KENNEBEC MARINER
18AN IDYL OF COLD WEATHER
43DRIVE, CAMP, AND WANGAN
19BUSTED THE “TEST YOUR STRENGTH”
44THE LAW ’GAINST SPIKE-SOLE BOOTS
20“WHEN A MAN GETS OLD”
45THE CHAP THAT SWINGS THE AXE
21I’VE GOT THEM CALVES TO VEAL
46THE SONG OF THE WOODS’ DOG-WATCH
22THE OFF SIDE OF THE COW
47FIDDLER CURED THE CAMP
23THE LYRIC OF THE BUCK-SAW
48THE SONG OF THE SAW
24MISTER KEAZLE’S EPITAPH
49DOWN THE TRAIL WITH GUM PACKS
25PLAIN OLD KITCHEN CHAP
50REAR O’ THE DRIVE
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