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Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of James Whitcomb Riley

Author: James Whitcomb Riley

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY ***

INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG

WORKS OF

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Compiled by David Widger

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##  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

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