mav:
Alice found an old cookbook at a garage sale.The title is Southern Cook Book there are only 322 recipes in there,written in Charlotte, N. C. Compiled and Edited by: Lillie S. Lustig S Claire Sondhein. Sarah Rensel .Along with the recipes are sayings and a few poems scattered throughout.Thanks for sharing,Alice.

Kentucky, Oh Kentucky, How I love your classic shades,
Where flit the fairy figures of the star eyed Southern maids;
Where the butterflies are joying mid the blossoms newly born;
Where the corn is full of kernels, And the colonels full of corn!
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I doubt he could have been referring to the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, though; it was founded in 1932 and Lampton died in 1917.
And, what's that R? [suspicious glower e]