Grandchildren tell the story of the day David, riding his horse Roscoe, rushed to the train station in Lexington to tie a poem on each bundle of apple trees being shipped west:
Such trees as these will surely please
The people of the West;
For Little knows, and surely grows
The very, very best.
Mary Presson Douglas found in her grandmother's trunk a small notebook filled with David's poems. This on the first two pages:
This little Book Where in you look The little children may
With parents too Find something new Peculiar in its way
Dear kindred friend To whom we send Imperfect composition
Should others see Please say for me Cornfield my education
And yet no man In all the land Love learning more than he
The student friend who loves to send A rhyme in a b c.
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