The Indian's invitation

composed by Francis J. Burns. A song (without the music) At head of text: Francis J. Burns, the author of the following lines... has been a pupil for three years in the Institution for the Blind, at Batavia, N.Y. Date suggested because author was born in 1856 and would be old enough to raise money by selling copies of poem as he states in prose introduction. The title is set in Monumental, or Gothic, a type face patented in 1878. Within an ornamental border.