[i] [i] [iii] [iii] DAISY ASHFORD: HER BOOK DAISY ASHFORD: HER BOOK DAISY ASHFORD: HER BOOK "THE YOUNG VISITERS," IRVIN S. COBB [iv] [iv] [v] [v] PREFACE By Irvin S. Cobb By Irvin S. Cobb The [vi] To your true discoverer the compensations of his trade come when he points with pride to the continent or the great natural fact or the new author he discovered and cries aloud before all creation: "See what I have found!" So, aside from the compliment and the honor of it, I feel added gratification and added pleasure that I should be invited to write a foreword for the first American edition of Miss Daisy Ashford's second book. You see, I claim the distinction of having been