Part 4

"He nursed the Infant Hoosier muse When she could scarcely lisp her name; Forerunner of the world's great lights That since have added to her fame, He blazed the way to greater things, With "Hoosier's Nest," and "Bachelor's Hall;" And, while the grand world-chorus rings With songs our Hoosier choir sings, Let not the stream forget the springs,-- Let Finley's name before them all."

Footnotes:

[1] "The Hoosiers," pp. 20-30.

[2] History of Indianapolis and Marion County, p. 72.

[3] "Early Indiana Trials and Sketches," p. 211.

[4] Coggeshall's "The Poets and Poetry of the West," and Finley's "The Hoosier's Nest and Other Poems" published in 1860.

[5] Indiana Democrat, Jan. 12, 1833.

[6] "A Winter in the West," p. 226.

[7] Indianapolis Journal, January 20, 1860.

[8] Sketches, p. 45.

[9] Salem Democrat, October 25, 1899; March 28, 1900.

[10] Published in 1835, Vol. 1, Page 210.

[11] Georgia Scenes, page 73.

[12] Pages 188-9.

[13] Pages 182-5.

Transcriber's Notes:

Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.

Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original.

Page 11: typograpical should be typographical; perodical should be periodical Page 14: occured should be occurred Page 17: Pulskys should be Pulszkys Page 22: electic should be eclectic Page 24: Dictonary should be Dictionary Page 26: symptons should be symptoms Page 28: occured should be occurred Page 32: abhorence should be abhorrence Page 36: shakles should be shackles Advertisment should be Advertisement

Punctuation has been corrected without note.