RILEY SONGS OF FRIENDSHIP
By James Whitcomb Riley
With Pictures By Will Vawter
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
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 |