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Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of James Whitcomb Riley Author: James Whitcomb Riley Editor: David Widger Release date: February 8, 2019 [eBook #58844] Language: English Credits: Produced by David Widger *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY *** Produced by David Widger INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Compiled by David Widger CONTENTS ## RILEY FARM-RHYMES ## A CHILD-WORLD ## RILEY CHILD-RHYMES ## PIPES O'PAN AT ZEKESBURY GREEN FIELDS ## THE BOOK OF JOYOUS CHILDREN ## AFTERWHILES ## RILEY SONGS OF HOME ## RILEY LOVE-LYRICS A DEFECTIVE SANTA CLAUS ## SONGS OF FRIENDSHIP AN OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE ## NYE AND RILEY'S WIT AND HUMOR ## THE OLD SOLDIERS STORY RUBAIYAT OF DOC SIFERS ## NEIGHBORLY POEMS, DIALECT SKETCHES LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE HOME AGAIN WITH ME TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES RILEY FARM-RHYMES By James Whitcomb Riley CONTENTS 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 James Whitcomb Riley CONTENTS 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 By James Whitcomb Riley CONTENTS 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 By James Whitcomb Riley 1895 CONTENTS 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. THE BOOK OF JOYOUS CHILDREN By James Whitcomb Riley Illustrated by J.W. VAWTER CONTENTS 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 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS 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 AFTERWHILES By James Whitcomb Riley CONTENTS 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 SONGS OF HOME By James Whitcomb Riley With Pictures By Will Vawter CONTENTS 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 RILEY LOVE-LYRICS By James Whitcomb Riley With Life Pictures By William B. Dyer CONTENTS 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 ILLUSTRATIONS 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 RILEY SONGS OF FRIENDSHIP By James Whitcomb Riley With Pictures By Will Vawter CONTENTS 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 ILLUSTRATIONS "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 NYE AND RILEY'S Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) By James Whitcomb Riley, and Bill Nye Illustrated CONTENTS 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 THE OLD SOLDIER'S STORY Poems and Prose Sketches James Whitcomb Riley CONTENTS 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 NEGHBORLY POEMS AND DIALECT SKETCHES By James Whitcomb Riley CONTENTS 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 *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY *** Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will be renamed. 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