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 |
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NEGHBORLY POEMS On Friendship, Grief and Farm-Life |
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| 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 |