--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Townsend, Joseph L. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 9 number: 8 published: 1906-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Joseph L. Townsend, "The Little Brown Log Cabin on the Farm," *Improvement Era* 9, no. 8 (June 1906): 598.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0908unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera0908unse start_page: 598 end_page: 598 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0908unse publication_year: 1906 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1906, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Little Brown Log Cabin on the Farm LITTLE BROWN LOG CABIN ON THE FARM. {For the Improvement Era.) Among memory's sweet pictures There is one I oft recall, For it ever has the dearest, sweetest charm: 'Tis the clearing in the forest By the brooklet's cheery fall. And the little brown log cabin on the farm. chorus: Childhood, Wildwood, Wild flowers mid the trees, And wild birds singing fearless of alarm! Farm life. Charm life, Mid clover and the bees, By the little brown log cabin on the farm! Father, mother, sister, brother, In that little cabin home, With hearts for one another glowing warm. Gathered sunshine for each other. Ere life's fortunes bade us roam From our litte brown log cabin on the farm. Autumn, winter, spring and summer, How each season brought its joy! And in memory yet lingers ev'ry charm! 0, could I regain the pleasure That I had, a happy boy. In the little brown log cabin on the farm! J. L. TOWNSEND. Payson, Utah.