To A "Service" Man"

It has been some months since I have updated this portion of the website. I have been pre-occupied with other projects. I have run across an interesting Service find however, and wish to share it at the Service Station.

I recently found a small cloth cover edition of the Spell of the Yukon, published in 1907.It is inscribed:

"To help cheer the time spent in rest between the hours of service for "our country".

Though no name is attached, I assume this is from a girl friend or wife to her lover in the armed forces in World War One. Sometimes written as an critique from an English teacher, sometimes romantic, sometimes patriotic, sometimes religious,this voyeuristic look into the thoughts of a waiting lover on the homefront is an interesting look at Robert Service's work.

The inscriptions are set apart from the verse with blue text. Any text within the verse that is highlighted in Orange was underlined in the book.

The Land God Forgot	The Spell of the Yukon	The Heart of the Sourdough	The Three Voices
The Law of the Yukon	The Parson's Son	The Call of the Wild	The Lone Trail
The Pines	The Lure of the Little voices	The Song of the Wage-Slave	Grin
The Shooting of Dan Mcgrew	Cremation of Sam Mcgee	My Madonna	Unforgotten
The Reckoning	Quantains	The Men That Don't Fit In	Music in the Bush
The Rhyme of the Remittance Man	The Low Down White	The Little Old Log Cabin	The Younger Son
The March of the Dead	"Fighting Mac"	The Woman and the Angel	The Rhyme of the Restless Ones
New Years Eve	Comfort	The Harpy	Premonition
The Tramps	L'envoi	Special Mystery Page	Glad to be of "Service"

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