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TO THE GOOD OLD-FASHIONED PEOPLE
RILEY FARM-RHYMES
THE ORCHARD LANDS OF LONG AGO
WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN
WHEN THE GREEN GITS BACK IN THE TREES
WET-WEATHER TALK
THE BROOK-SONG
THOUGHTS FER THE DISCURAGED FARMER
"MYLO JONES'S WIFE"
HOW JOHN QUIT THE FARM
A CANARY AT THE FARM
WHERE THE CHILDREN USED TO PLAY
GRIGGSBY'S STATION
KNEE-DEEP IN JUNE
SEPTEMBER DARK
THE CLOVER
OLD OCTOBER
OLD-FASHIONED ROSES
A COUNTRY PATHWAY
WORTERMELON TIME
UP AND DOWN OLD BRANDYWINE
WHEN EARLY MARCH SEEMS MIDDLE MAY
A TALE OF THE AIRLY DAYS
OLD MAN'S NURSERY RHYME
JUNE
THE TREE-TOAD
A SONG OF LONG AGO
OLD WINTERS ON THE FARM
ROMANCIN'

A CHILD-WORLD
THE CHILD-WORLD
THE OLD-HOME FOLKS
ALMON KEEFER
NOEY BIXLER
"A NOTED TRAVELER"
A PROSPECTIVE VISIT
AT NOEY'S HOUSE
"THAT LITTLE DOG"
THE LOEHRS AND THE HAMMONDS
THE HIRED MAN AND FLORETTY
THE EVENING COMPANY
MAYMIE'S STORY OF RED RIDING HOOD
LIMITATIONS OF GENIUS
MR. HAMMOND'S PARABLE
FLORETTY'S MUSICAL CONTRIBUTION
BUD'S FAIRY-TALE
A DELICIOUS INTERRUPTION
NOEY'S NIGHT-PIECE
COUSIN RUFUS' STORY
BEWILDERING EMOTIONS
THE BEAR-STORY
THE PATHOS OF APPLAUSE
TOLD BY "THE NOTED TRAVELER"
HEAT-LIGHTNING
UNCLE MART'S POEM
"LITTLE JACK JANITOR"

RILEY CHILD-RHYMES
LITTLE ORPHANT ANNIE
THE RAGGEDY MAN
CURLY LOCKS
THE FUNNY LITTLE FELLOW
THE HAPPY LITTLE CRIPPLE
THE RIDER OF THE KNEE
DOWN AROUND THE RIVER
AT AUNTY'S HOUSE
THE DAYS GONE BY
THE BUMBLEBEE
THE BOY LIVES ON OUR FARM
THE SQUIRTGUN UNCLE MAKED ME
THE OLD TRAMP
OLD AUNT MARY'S
WINTER FANCIES
THE RUNAWAY BOY
THE LITTLE COAT
AN IMPETUOUS RESOLVE
WHO SANTY-CLAUS WUZ
THE NINE LITTLE GOBLINS
TIME OF CLEARER TWITTERINGS
THE CIRCUS-DAY PARADE
THE LUGUBRIOUS WHING-WHANG
WAITIN' FER THE CAT TO DIE
NAUGHTY CLAUDE
THE SOUTH WIND AND THE SUN
THE JOLLY MILLER
OUR HIRED GIRL
THE BOYS' CANDIDATE
THE PET COON
THE OLD HAY-MOW
ON THE SUNNY SIDE
A SUDDEN SHOWER
GRANDFATHER SQUEERS
THE PIXY PEOPLE
A LIFE-LESSON
A HOME-MADE FAIRY-TALE
THE BEAR STORY
ENVOY

PIPES O' PAN AT ZEKESBURY
AT ZEKESBURY.
DOWN AROUND THE RIVER POEMS
DOWN AROUND THE RIVER.
KNEELING WITH HERRICK.
ROMANCIN'.
HAS SHE FORGOTTEN.
A' OLD PLAYED-OUT SONG.
THE LOST PATH.
THE LITTLE TINY KICKSHAW.
HIS MOTHER.
KISSING THE ROD.
HOW IT HAPPENED.
BABYHOOD.
THE DAYS GONE BY.
MRS. MILLER
RHYMES OF RAINY DAYS
THE TREE-TOAD.
A WORN-OUT PENCIL.
THE STEPMOTHER.
THE RAIN.
THE LEGEND GLORIFIED.
WANT TO BE WHUR MOTHER IS.
OLD MAN'S NURSERY RHYME.
THREE DEAD FRIENDS.
IN BOHEMIA.
IN THE DARK.
WET WEATHER TALK.
WHERE SHALL WE LAND.
AN OLD SETTLER'S STORY
SWEET-KNOT AND GALAMUS
AN OLD SWEETHEART.
MARTHY ELLEN.
MOON-DROWNED.
LONG AFORE HE KNOWED WHO SANTY-CLAUS WUZ.
DEAR HANDS.
THIS MAN JONES.
TO MY GOOD MASTER.
WHEN THE GREEN GITS BACK IN THE TREES.
AT BROAD RIPPLE.
WHEN OLD JACK DIED.
DOC SIFERS.
AT NOON—AND MIDNIGHT.
A WILD IRISHMAN.
RAGWEED AND FENNEL
WHEN MY DREAMS COME TRUE.
A DOS'T O' BLUES.
THE BAT.
THE WAY IT WUZ.
THE DRUM.
TOM JOHNSON'S QUIT.
LULLABY.
IN THE SOUTH.
THE OLD HOME BY THE MILL.
A LEAVE-TAKING.
WAIT FOR THE MORNING.
WHEN JUNE IS HERE.
THE GILDED ROLL.
A BACKWARD LOOK.

PROEM
THE BOOK OF JOYOUS CHILDREN
AN IMPROMPTU FAIRY-TALE
DREAM-MARCH
ELMER BROWN
NO BOY KNOWS
WHEN WE FIRST PLAYED "SHOW"
A DIVERTED TRAGEDY
THE RAMBO-TREE
FIND THE FAVORITE
THE BOY PATRIOT
EXTREMES
INTELLECTUAL LIMITATIONS
A MASQUE OF THE SEASONS
THOMAS THE PRETENDER
LITTLE DICK AND THE CLOCK
[x] FOOL-YOUNGENS
THE KATYDIDS
BILLY AND HIS DRUM
THE NOBLE OLD ELM
THE PENALTY OF GENIUS
EVENSONG
THE TWINS
THE LITTLE LADY
"COMPANY MANNERS"
IN FERVENT PRAISE OF PICNICS
THE GOOD, OLD-FASHIONED PEOPLE
THE BEST TIMES
"HIK-TEE-DIK!"
A CHRISTMAS MEMORY
"OLD BOB WHITE"
A SESSION WITH UNCLE SIDNEY:
I ONE OF HIS ANIMAL STORIES
II UNCLE BRIGHTENS UP
III SINGS A "WINKY-TOODEN" SONG
IV AND MAKES NURSERY RHYMES
1 THE DINERS IN THE KITCHEN
2 THE IMPERIOUS ANGLER
3 THE GATHERING OF THE CLANS
4 "IT"
5 THE DARING PRINCE
[xi] A DUBIOUS "OLD KRISS"
A SONG OF SINGING
THE JAYBIRD
A BEAR FAMILY
SOME SONGS AFTER MASTER-SINGERS:
I SONG
II TO THE CHILD JULIA
III THE DOLLY'S MOTHER
IV WIND OF THE SEA
V SUBTLETY
VI BORN TO THE PURPLE
OLD MAN WHISKERY-WHEE-KUM-WHEEZE
LITTLE-GIRL-TWO-LITTLE-GIRLS
A GUSTATORY ACHIEVEMENT
CLIMATIC SORCERY
A PARENT REPRIMANDED
THE TREASURE OF THE WISE MAN

NOT IN CLASSIC LOOK, BUT RICH IN THE CHILD-SAGAS OF THE KITCHEN
KNEEL, ALL GLOWING, TO THE COOL SPRING
NO BOY KNOWS WHEN HE GOES TO SLEEP
JAMESY ON THE SLACK-ROPE
ACROSS THE ORCHARD
WHILE ALL THE ARMY, FOLLOWING, IN CHORUS CHEERS AND SINGS
WHERE IT GOES WHEN THE FIRE GOES OUT?
THE FAIRY QUEEN OF THE SEASONS
PORE PA! PORE PA!
SQUINT' OUR EYES AN' LAUGH' AGAIN
HE'S A-MARCHIN' ROUND THE ROOM
THE OLD TREE SAYS HE'S ALL OUR TREE
THEREFORE READ NO LONGER
SHE'S BUT A RACING SCHOOL-GIRL
[xiv] THEY WAS GOD'S PEOPLE
THEM WUZ THE BEST TIMES EVER WUZ
HE'S GO' HITCH UP, CHRIS'MUS-DAY, AN' COME TAKE ME BACK AGAIN
WHEN WE DROVE TO HARMONY
A BIG, HOLLOW, OLD OAK-TREE, WHICH HAD BEEN BLOWN DOWN BY A STORM
THE YOUNG FOXES IN IT, ON THE HEARTH BESIDE HER
AN' ALL BE POETS AN' ALL RECITE
ALONG THE BRINK OF WILD BROOK-WAYS
I LIKE TO WATCH HIM
WHILE KATE PICKS BY, YET LOOKS NOT THERE
LEND ME THE BREATH OF A FRESHENING GALE
BOW TO ME IN THE WINDER THERE
OUR "OLD-KRISS"-MILKMAN
THE CHILDISH DREAMS IN HIS WISE OLD HEAD

PROEM (AKA "Afterwhiles")
Herr Weiser
The Beautiful City
Lockerbie Street
Das Krist Kindel
Anselmo
A Home-Made Fairy Tale
The South Wind and the Sun
The Lost Kiss
The Sphinx
If I knew What Poets Know
Ike Walton's Prayer
A Rough Sketch
Our Kind of a Man
The Harper
Old Aunt Mary's
Illileo
The King
A Bride
The Dead Lover
A Song
When Bessie Died
The Shower
A Life Lesson
A Scrawl
Away
Who Bides His Time
From the Headboard of a Grave in Paraguay
Laughter Holding Both His Sides
Fame
The Ripest Peach
A Fruit Piece
Their Sweet Sorrow
John McKeen
Out of Nazareth
September Dark
We To Sigh Instead of Sing
The Blossoms on the Trees
Last Night— And This
A Discouraging Model
Back From a Two-years' Sentence
The Wandering Jew
Becalmed
To Santa Claus
Where the Children used to Play
A Glimpse of Pan
SONNETS
Pan
Dusk
June
Silence
Sleep
Her Hair
Dearth
A Voice From the Farm
The Serenade
Art and Love
Longfellow
Indiana
Time
Grant
IN DIALECT
Old Fashioned Roses
Griggsby's Station
Knee Deep in June
When The Hearse Comes Back
A Canary At the Farm
A Liz Town Humorist
Kingry's Mill
Joney
Like His Mother Used To Make
The Train Misser
Granny
Old October
Jim
To Robert Burns
A New Year's Time at Willards's
The Town Karnteel
Regardin' Terry Hut
Leedle Dutch Baby
Down On Wriggle Crick
When De Folks Is Gone
The Little Town O' Tailholt
Little Orphant Annie

AS CREATED	56
AS MY UNCLE USED TO SAY	126
AT SEA	160
BACKWARD LOOK, A	155
BEST IS GOOD ENOUGH, THE	123
BOYS, THE	104
"BRAVE REFRAIN, A"	113
DREAMER, SAY	61
FEEL IN THE CHRIS'MAS AIR	52
FOR YOU	50
GOOD MAN, A	132
HER BEAUTIFUL HANDS	189
HIS ROOM	38
HONEY DRIPPING FROM THE COMB	125
"HOW DID YOU REST, LAST NIGHT?"	94
IN THE EVENING	115
IT'S GOT TO BE	107
JACK-IN-THE-BOX	100
JIM	117
JOHN MCKEEN	165
JUST TO BE GOOD	26
KNEELING WITH HERRICK	138
LAUGHTER HOLDING BOTH HIS SIDES	81
MULBERRY TREE, THE	46
MY DANCIN' DAYS IS OVER	184
MY FRIEND	29
NATURAL PERVERSITIES	70
NOT ALWAYS GLAD WHEN WE SMILE	36
OLD DAYS, THE	135
OLD GUITAR, THE	161
OLD TRUNDLE-BED, THE	64
OUR BOYHOOD HAUNTS	182
OUR KIND OF A MAN	92
OUR OWN	63
"OUT OF REACH?"	112
OUT OF THE HITHERWHERE	98
PLAINT HUMAN, THE	43
QUEST, THE	44
RAINY MORNING, THE	141
REACH YOUR HAND TO ME	143
SCRAWL, A	75
SONG OF PARTING	90
SONG OF YESTERDAY, THE	82
SPRING SONG AND A LATER, A	137
"THEM OLD CHEERY WORDS"	172
THINKIN' BACK	31
THROUGH SLEEPY-LAND	170
TO MY OLD FRIEND, WILLIAM LEACHMAN	145
TO THE JUDGE	177
WE MUST BELIEVE	130
WE MUST GET HOME	19
WHERE-AWAY	57
WHO BIDES HIS TIME	68
WRITIN' BACK TO THE HOME-FOLKS	76

	PAGE
Blooms of May	185
Discouraging Model, A	133
"Dream"	46
Farmer Whipple—Bachelor	167
Has She Forgotten?	181
He and I	83
He Called Her In	50
Her Beautiful Eyes	60
Her Hair	128
Her Face and Brow	63
Her Waiting Face	71
Home at Night	122
How it Happened	95
Ike Walton's Prayer	107
Illileo	111
Judith	79
Last Night and This	131
Leonainie	68
Let Us Forget	64
Lost Path, The	87
My Bride That Is To Be	90
My Mary	117
Nothin' to Say	103
Old Played-out Song, A'	31
Old Sweetheart of Mine, An	23
Old Year and the New, The	72
Out-worn Sappho, An	37
Passing of a Heart, The	44
Rival, The	148
Rose, The	178
Sermon of the Rose, The	189
Song of Long Ago, A	160
Suspense	136
Their Sweet Sorrow	76
To Hear Her Sing	146
Tom Van Arden	139
Touches of Her Hands, The	157
Variation, A	151
Very Youthful Affair, A	36
When Age Comes On	164
When Lide Married Him	125
When My Dreams Come True	99
When She Comes Home	67
Where Shall We Land	154
Wife-Blesséd, The	115

	PAGE
Love-Lyrics	Frontispiece
Illustrations—Tailpiece	xx
An Old Sweetheart of Mine	23
And I Light My Pipe in Silence	24
The Voices of My Children	25
The Pink Sunbonnet	26
When First I Kissed Her	27
(untitled image)	29
My Wife is Standing There	30
A' Old Played-Out Song	33
A' Old Played-Out Song—Tailpiece	35
A Very Youthful Affair	36
An Out-worn Sappho	41
An Out-worn Sappho—Tailpiece	43
The Passing of a Heart—Title	44
The Passing of a Heart—Tailpiece	45
"Dream"	47
"Dream"—Tailpiece	49
He Called Her In—Title	50
A Dark and Eerie Child	51
When She First Came to Me	57
He Called Her In—Tailpiece	59
Her Beautiful Eyes	61
Her Face and Brow	63
Let Us Forget—Title	64
Our Worn Eyes are Wet	65
When She Comes Home	67
Leonainie—Title	68
Leonainie—Tailpiece	70
Her Waiting Face	71
The Old Year and the New—Title	72
I Saw the Old Year End	73
Their Sweet Sorrow	77
Judith	79
O, Her Eyes are Amber-fine	81
He and I	85
The Lost Path—Title	87
The Lost Path	89
Madonna-like and Glorified	91
How it Happened	97
When My Dreams Come True	101
Nothin' to Say	105
Ike Walton's Prayer—Title	107
Ike Walton's Prayer—Tailpiece	110
Illileo	113
Wife-Blesséd, The	115
The Auld Trysting-Tree	119
My Mary—Tailpiece	121
Home at Night	123
When Lide Married Him — Title	125
When Lide Married Him — Tailpiece	127
Her Hair	129
Last Night and This—Title	131
Last Night and This—Tailpiece	132
A Discouraging Model—Title	133
A Cameo Face	135
Suspense	137
Tom Van Arden—Title	139
Tom Van Arden	141
To Hear Her Sing	146
The Rival	148
A Variation—Title	151
Where Shall We Land?—Title	154
Where Shall We Land?—Tailpiece	156
The Touches of Her Hands—Title	157
The Touches of Her Hands—Tailpiece	158
O Rarely Soft, the Touches of Her Hands	159
A Song of Long Ago	161
When Age Comes On	165
Farmer Whipple—Bachelor—Title	167
Ridin' Home with Mary	171
Farmer Whipple—Bachelor—Tailpiece	177
The Rose—Title	178
Has She Forgotten?	183
Blooms of May—Title	185
O Lad and Lass	186
O Gleam and Gloom and Woodland Bloom	187
The Sermon of the Rose	191

ABE MARTIN	142
AMERICA'S THANKSGIVING	182
ANCIENT PRINTERMAN, THE	101
ART AND POETRY	78
BACK FROM TOWN	23
BE OUR FORTUNES AS THEY MAY	34
BECAUSE	152
CHRISTMAS GREETING	141
DAN O'SULLIVAN	132
DEAD JOKE AND THE FUNNY MAN, THE	180
DOWN TO THE CAPITAL	80
FRIEND OF A WAYWARD HOUR	46
GOOD-BY ER HOWDY-DO	58
HER VALENTINE	140
HERR WEISER	153
HOBO VOLUNTARY, A	25
I SMOKE MY PIPE	36
IN THE AFTERNOON	148
IN THE HEART OF JUNE	120
JAMES B MAYNARD	100
LETTER TO A FRIEND, A	52
"LITTLE MAN IN THE TINSHOP, THE"	61
LITTLE OLD POEM THAT NOBODY READS, THE	146
MOTHER-SONG, A	158
MY BACHELOR CHUM	74
MY FRIEND	126
MY HENRY	48
MY JOLLY FRIEND'S SECRET	114
MY OLD FRIEND	134
OLD BAND, THE	121
OLD CHUMS	89
OLD-FASHIONED BIBLE, THE	54
OLD JOHN HENRY	136
OLD INDIANY	185
OLD MAN, THE	92
OLD MAN AND JIM, THE	105
OLD SCHOOL-CHUM, THE	112
OUR OLD FRIEND NEVERFAIL	72
POET'S LOVE FOR THE CHILDREN, THE	42
REACH YOUR HAND TO ME	176
SCOTTY	90
SONG BY UNCLE SIDNEY, A	41
STEPMOTHER, THE	162
THAT NIGHT	168
TO ALMON KEEPER	170
TO THE QUIET OBSERVER	174
TOM VAN ARDEN	68
TOMMY SMITH	66
TRAVELING MAN, THE	128
UNCLE SIDNEY TO MARCELLUS	40
WHAT "OLD SANTA" OVERHEARD	160
WHEN OLD JACK DIED	163
WHEN WE THREE MEET	60

"SLEEP, FOR THY MOTHER BENDS OVER THEE YET!"	Frontispiece
BACK FROM TOWN--HEADPIECE	23
A HOBO VOLUNTARY--HEADPIECE	25
HE CAMPS NEAR TOWN, ON THE OLD CRICK-BANK	27
AND SO LIKEWISE DOES THE FARMHANDS STARE	31
A HOBO VOLUNTARY--TAILPIECE	33
BE OUR FORTUNES AS THEY MAY--HEADPIECE	34
BE OUR FORTUNES AS THEY MAY--TAILPIECE	35
AND WRAPPED IN SHROUDS OF DRIFTING CLOUDS	37
UNCLE SIDNEY TO MARCELLUS--HEADPIECE	40
THE POET'S LOVE FOR THE CHILDREN--HEADPIECE	42
OF THE ORCHARD-LANDS OF CHILDHOOD	43
FRIEND OF A WAYWARD HOUR--HEADPIECE	46
FRIEND OF A WAYWARD HOUR--TAILPIECE	47
MY HENRY--HEADPIECE	48
NOTHIN' THAT BOY WOULDN'T RESK!	49
A LETTER TO A FRIEND--HEADPIECE	52
A LETTER TO A FRIEND--TAILPIECE	53
THE OLD-FASHIONED BIBLE--HEADPIECE	54
THE BLESSED OLD VOLUME	55
GOOD-BY ER HOWDY-DO--HEADPIECE	58
GOOD-BY ER HOWDY-DO--TAILPIECE	59
"THE LITTLE MAN IN THE TINSHOP"--HEADPIECE	61
THE ORCHESTRA, WITH ITS MELODY	63
TOMMY SMITH--HEADPIECE	66
OUR OLD FRIEND NEVERFAIL--HEADPIECE	72
HIS MOUTH IS A GRIN WITH THE CORNERS TUCKED IN	75
ART AND POETRY--HEADPIECE	78
DOWN TO THE CAPITAL--HEADPIECE	80
TO OLD ONE-LEGGED CHAPS, LIKE ME	83
"IT'S ALL JES' ARTIFICIAL, THIS-ERE HIGH-PRICED LIFE OF OURS"	87
OLD CHUMS--HEADPIECE	89
SCOTTY--HEADPIECE	90
THE OLD MAN--HEADPIECE	92
IN YOUR REPOSEFUL GAZE	95
THE OLD MAN--TAILPIECE	99
THE ANCIENT PRINTERMAN--HEADPIECE	101
O PRINTERMAN OF SALLOW FACE	103
THE OLD MAN AND JIM--HEADPIECE	105
"WELL, GOOD-BY, JIM"	107
THE OLD MAN AND JIM--TAILPIECE	109
THE OLD MAN AND JIM--TAILPIECE	110
THE OLD MAN AND JIM--TAILPIECE	111
THE OLD SCHOOL-CHUM--HEADPIECE	112
THE OLD SCHOOL-CHUM--TAILPIECE	113
MY JOLLY FRIEND'S SECRET--HEADPIECE	114
AH, FRIEND OF MINE, HOW GOES IT	115
MY JOLLY FRIEND'S SECRET--TAILPIECE	119
THE OLD BAND--HEADPIECE	121
I WANT TO HEAR THE OLD BAND PLAY	123
THE OLD BAND--TAILPIECE	125
MY FRIEND--HEADPIECE	126
MY FRIEND--TAILPIECE	127
THE TRAVELING MAN--HEADPIECE	128
WHO HAVE MET HIM WITH SMILES AND WITH CHEER	129
DAN O'SULLIVAN--HEADPIECE	132
DAN O'SULLIVAN--TAILPIECE	133
MY OLD FRIEND--HEADPIECE	134
OLD JOHN HENRY--HEADPIECE	136
A SMILIN' FACE AND A HEARTY HAND	137
CHRISTMAS GREETING--HEADPIECE	141
ABE MARTIN--HEADPIECE	142
HIS MOUTH, LIKE HIS PIPE, 'S ALLUS GOIN'	143
THE LITTLE OLD POEM THAT NOBODY READS--HEADPIECE	146
THE LITTLE OLD POEM THAT NOBODY READS--TAILPIECE	147
IN THE AFTERNOON--HEADPIECE	148
YOU IN THE HAMMOCK; AND I, NEAR BY	149
IN THE AFTERNOON--TAILPIECE	151
HERR WEISER--HEADPIECE	153
AND LILY AND ASTER AND COLUMBINE	155
HERR WEISER--TAILPIECE	157
A MOTHER-SONG--HEADPIECE	158
WHAT "OLD SANTA" OVERHEARD--HEADPIECE	160
WHAT "OLD SANTA" OVERHEARD--TAILPIECE	161
WHEN OLD JACK DIED--HEADPIECE	163
WE COULDN'T ONLY CRY WHEN OLD JACK DIED	165
WHEN OLD JACK DIED--TAILPIECE	167
THAT NIGHT--HEADPIECE	168
THAT NIGHT--TAILPIECE	169
TO ALMON KEEFER--HEADPIECE	170
UNDER "THE OLD SWEET APPLE TREE"	171
TO ALMON KEEFER--TAILPIECE	173
TO THE QUIET OBSERVER--HEADPIECE	174
TO THE QUIET OBSERVER--TAILPIECE	175
REACH YOUR HAND TO ME--HEADPIECE	176
REACH YOUR HAND TO ME, MY FRIEND	177
REACH YOUR HAND TO ME--TAILPIECE	179
THE DEAD JOKE AND THE FUNNY MAN--HEADPIECE	180
THE DEAD JOKE AND THE FUNNY MAN--TAILPIECE	181
AMERICA'S THANKSGIVING--HEADPIECE	182
OLD INDIANY--HEADPIECE	185
BUT, FELLERS, SHE'S A LEAKY STATE!	187
OLD INDIANY--TAILPIECE	190

August—Riley	32
Anecdotes of Jay Gould—Nye	23
A Black Hills Episode—Riley	132
A Blasted Snore—Nye	190
A Brave Refrain—Riley	188
A Character—Riley	142
A Dose't of Blues—Riley	220
A Fall Creek View of the Earthquake—Riley	30
A Hint of Spring—Riley	168
A Letter of Acceptance—Nye	56
A Treat Ode—Riley	170
Craqueodoom—Riley	81
Curly Locks—Riley	118
Ezra House—Riley	161
From Delphi to Camden—Riley	75
Good-bye or Howdy-do—Riley	195
Healthy, but Out of the Race—Nye	101
Her Tired Hands—Nye	152
His Crazy Bone—Riley	89
His Christmas Sled—Riley	150
His First Womern—Riley	41
How to Hunt the Fox—Nye	46
In a Box—Riley	214
In the Afternoon—Riley	65
Julius Cæsar in Town—Nye	34
Lines on Hearing a Cow Bawl—Riley	107
Lines on Turning Over a Pass—Nye	120
Me and Mary—Riley	109
McFeeters' Fourth—Riley	211
My Bachelor Chum—Riley	178
Mr Silberberg—Riley	96
Niagara Falls from the Nye Side—Nye	111
Never Talk Back—Riley	20
Oh, Wilhelmina, Come Back—Nye	165
Our Wife—Nye	172
Prying Open the Future—Nye	90
Says He—Riley	204
Seeking to Be Identified—Nye	228
Seeking to Set the Public Right—Nye	216
Spirits at Home—Riley	99
Society Gurgs from Sandy Mush—Nye	197
Sutter's Claim—Riley	226
This Man Jones—Riley	43
That Night—Riley	124
The Boy Friend—Riley	54
The Chemist of the Carolinas—Nye	82
The Diary of Darius T Skinner—Nye	144
The Grammatical Boy—Nye	77
The Gruesome Ballad of Mr Squincher—Riley	21
The Man in the Moon—Riley	148
The Philanthropical Jay—Nye	180
The Truth about Methuselah—Nye	126
The Tar-heel Cow—Nye	137
The Rise and Fall of William Johnson—Nye	66
The Rossville Lecture Course—Riley	134
Wanted, a Fox—Nye	222
Where He First Met His Parents—Nye	17
Where the Roads are Engaged in Forking—Nye	206
While Cigarettes to Ashes Turn—Riley	201
Why It Was Done—Nye & Riley	11

PAGE
The Old Soldier's Story	1
Somep'n Common-like	5
Monsieur le Secretaire	6
A Phantom	7
In the Corridor	8
Louella Wainie	9
The Text	11
William Brown	12
Why	14
The Touch of Loving Hands	15
A Test	16
A Song for Christmas	17
Sun and Rain	19
With Her Face	20
My Night	21
The Hour Before the Dawn	22
Good-by, Old Year	23
False and True	24
A Ballad from April	25
Brudder Sims	27
Deformed	28
Faith	30
The Lost Thrill	31
At Dusk	32
Another Ride from Ghent to Aix	33
In the Heart of June	36
Dreams	37
Because	42
To the Cricket	43
The Old-fashioned Bible	44
Uncomforted	46
What They Said	48
After the Frost	50
Charles H. Phillips	51
When It Rains	53
An Assassin	55
Best of All	56
Bin a-Fishin'	57
Uncle Dan'l in Town Over Sunday	59
Soldiers Here To-day	61
Shadow and Shine	65
That Night	66
August	67
The Guide	68
Sutter's Claim	71
Her Light Guitar	73
While Cigarettes to Ashes Turn	74
Two Sonnets to the June-bug	77
Autographic	79
An Impromptu on Roller Skates	80
Written in Bunner's "Airs from Arcady"	81
In the Afternoon	82
At Madame Manicure's	84
A Caller from Boone	86
Lord Bacon	98
My First Womern	99
As We Read Burns	101
To James Newton Matthews	102
Song	103
When We Three Meet	105
Josh Billings	106
Which Ane	108
The Earthquake	111
A Fall-crick View of the Earthquake	112
Lewis D. Hayes	114
In Days to Come	116
Luther A. Todd	117
When the Hearse Comes Back	121
Our Old Friend Neverfail	124
Dan O'sullivan	126
John Boyle O'reilly	127
Meredith Nicholson	129
God's Mercy	130
Christmas Greeting	131
To Rudyard Kipling	132
The Gudewife	133
Tennyson	134
Rosamond C. Bailey	135
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison	136
George A. Carr	138
To Elizabeth	139
To Almon Keefer	140
To—"The J. W. R. Literary Club"	142
Little Maid-o'-dreams	143
To the Boy with a Country	145
Claude Matthews	146
To Lesley	147
The Judkins Papers	148
To the Quiet Observer—erasmus Wilson	165
America's Thanksgiving	166
William Pinkney Fishback	168
John Clark Ridpath	170
New Year's Nursery Jingle	173
To the Mother	174
To My Sister	175
A Motto	176
To a Poet on His Marriage	177
Art and Poetry	178
Her Smile of Cheer and Voice of Song	179
Old Indiany	180
Abe Martin	183
O. Henry	185
"Mona Machree"	186
William Mckinley	187
Benjamin Harrison	190
Lee O. Harris	192
The Highest Good	194
My Conscience	195
My Boy	197
The Object Lesson	198

THE OLD SWIMMIN'-HOLE, AND 'LEVEN MORE POEMS
The Delights of our Childhood is soon Passed Away	2
The Old Swimmin'-Hole	3
Thoughts fer The Discuraged Farmer	6
A Summer's Day	9
A Hymb of Faith	13
Wortermelon Time	16
My Philosofy	20
When the Frost is on the Punkin	23
On the Death of Little Mahala Ashcraft	26
The Mulberry Tree	29
To my Old Friend, William Leachman	31
My Fiddle	36
The Clover	39
NEGHBORLY POEMS On Friendship, Grief and Farm-Life
Us Farmers in the Country, as the Seasons go and Come	42
Erasmus Wilson	43
My Ruthers	48
On a Dead Babe	51
A Old Played-out Song	52
"Coon-dog Wess"	55
Perfesser John Clark Ridpath	62
A Tale of the Airly Days	66
"Mylo Jones's Wife"	68
On a Splendud Match	71
Old John Clevenger on Buckeyes	72
The Hoss	78
Ezra House	82
A Pen-Pictur'	86
Wet-weather Talk	90
Thoughts on a Pore Joke	93
A Mortul Prayer	94
The First Bluebird	96
Evagene Baker	97
On any Ordenary Man	100
Town and Country	101
Lines Writ fer Isaac Bradwell	103
Decoration Day on the Place	104
The Tree-Toad	107
The Rossville Lectur' Course	109
When the Green Gits Back in the Trees	112
How it Happened	114
A Dos't o' Blues	117
The Old Home by the Mill	119
The Way it Wuz	121
Pap's Old Sayin'	125
Romancin'	128
AN OLD SETTLER'S STORY	133
DIALECT IN LITERATURE	195

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James Whitcomb Riley

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PIPES O' PAN AT ZEKESBURY

By James Whitcomb Riley

1895

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THE BOOK OF JOYOUS CHILDREN

By James Whitcomb Riley

Illustrated by J.W. VAWTER

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FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

AFTERWHILES

By James Whitcomb Riley

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SONGS OF HOME

By James Whitcomb Riley

With Pictures By Will Vawter

CONTENTS

RILEY LOVE-LYRICS

By James Whitcomb Riley

With Life Pictures By William B. Dyer

CONTENTS

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RILEY SONGS OF FRIENDSHIP

By James Whitcomb Riley

With Pictures By Will Vawter

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NYE AND RILEY'S

Wit and Humor

(Poems and Yarns)

By James Whitcomb Riley, and Bill Nye

Illustrated

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THE OLD SOLDIER'S STORY

Poems and Prose Sketches

James Whitcomb Riley

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NEGHBORLY POEMS AND DIALECT SKETCHES

By James Whitcomb Riley

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