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The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley

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Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916)

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VOLUME I
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VOLUME II
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VOLUME III
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VOLUME IV
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VOLUME V
  
WHAT “OLD SANTA” OVERHEARD
  
GRANT
  
ON THE BANKS O' DEER CRICK
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BILLY COULD RIDE
  
DAVE FIELD
  
WHEN WE THREE MEET
  
JOSH BILLINGS
  
THE LAND OF THUS-AND-SO
  
THE HOSS
  
A OLD PLAYED-OUT SONG
  
LITTLE ORPHANT ANNIE
  
A DOS'T O' BLUES
  
THE TRAIN-MISSER
  
THE PLAINT HUMAN
  
WHICH ANE
  
REGARDIN' TERRY HUT
  
A TALE OF THE AIRLY DAYS
  
THE ROSSVILLE LECTUR' COURSE
  
HER BEAUTIFUL EYES
  
WANT TO BE WHUR MOTHER IS
  
BABE HERRICK
  
TO A JILTED SWAIN
  
KNEELING WITH HERRICK
  
IN THE SOUTH
  
THE HAPPY LITTLE CRIPPLE
  
HAS SHE FORGOTTEN
  
ILLILEO
  
THE JOLLY MILLER
  
HE COMETH IN SWEET SENSE
  
KINGRY'S MILL
  
THE EARTHQUAKE
  
A FALL-CRICK VIEW OF THE EARTHQUAKE
  
WHEN THE WORLD BU'STS THROUGH
  
THE OLD RETIRED SEA-CAPTAIN
  
JIM
  
OLD OCTOBER
  
JUDITH
  
THE LEGEND GLORIFIED
  
ON A FLY-LEAF
  
OLD MAN'S NURSERY RHYME
  
LEWIS D. HAYES
  
A LOCAL POLITICIAN FROM AWAY BACK
  
THE MUTE SINGER
  
THE CYCLONE
  
IN DAYS TO COME
  
THE STEPMOTHER
  
WHEN MY DREAMS COME TRUE
  
THE CHANT OF THE CROSS-BEARING CHILD
  
THREE DEAD FRIENDS
  
WHEN SHE COMES HOME
  
LUTHER A. TODD
  
WHEN OLD JACK DIED
  
WHEN THE HEARSE COMES BACK
  
NESSMUK
  
BACK FROM A TWO-YEARS' SENTENCE
  
TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
  
THEM FLOWERS
  
THE ROBINS' OTHER NAME
  
THE RAIN
  
TO EDGAR WILSON NYE
  
A DISCOURAGING MODEL
  
THE SERENADE
  
DOC SIFERS
  
AFTERWHILES
  
A HOME-MADE FAIRY TALE
  
A VOICE FROM THE FARM
  
THE OLD HOME BY THE MILL
  
THE OLD MAN AND JIM
  
OUR OLD FRIEND NEVERFAIL
  
DAN O'SULLIVAN
  
AT “THE LITERARY”
  
SHE “DISPLAINS” IT
  
DEAD, MY LORDS
  
A MAN BY THE NAME OF BOLUS
  
THE TRAVELING MAN
  
THE ABSENCE OF LITTLE WESLEY
  
WHEN THE GREEN GITS BACK IN THE TREES
  
HOW IT HAPPENED
  
GLADNESS
  
THE WIFE-BLESSED
  
ROBERT BURNS WILSON
  
'MONGST THE HILLS O' SOMERSET
  
A PASSING HAIL
  
“LAST CHRISTMAS WAS A YEAR AGO”
  
LITTLE JOHNTS'S CHRIS'MUS
  
THAT-AIR YOUNG-UN
  
THE PIPES OF PAN
  
DOWN AROUND THE RIVER
  
HIS MOTHER
  
IN BOHEMIA
  
MOON-DROWNED
  
WHO SANTY CLAUS WUZ
  
TO MY GOOD MASTER
  
CHAIRLEY BURKE'S IN TOWN
  
WAIT FOR THE MORNING
  
YOUTH AND AGE
  
THE POET OF THE FUTURE
  
NAUGHTY CLAUDE
  
THE ARTEMUS OF MICHIGAN
  
WAITIN' FER THE CAT TO DIE
  
THE ALL-KIND MOTHER
  
TO HATTIE—ON HER BIRTHDAY
  
DOWN TO THE CAPITAL
  
JAP MILLER
  
JOHN TARKINGTON JAMESON
  
HENRY W. GRADY
  
IN THE EVENING
  
THOUGHTS ON THE LATE WAR
  
THE OLD BAND
  
BY ANY OTHER NAME
  
LINES FER ISAAC BRADWELL, OF INDANOPLIS, IND., COUNTY-SEAT OF MARION
  
“THE LITTLE MAN IN THE TIN-SHOP”
  
A SOUTHERN SINGER
  
JUNE AT WOODRUFF
  
IRY AND BILLY AND JO
  
UNCLE SIDNEY'S VIEWS
  
BEREAVED
  
THE RIDER OF THE KNEE
  
THE LITTLE-RED-APPLE TREE
  
UNCLE SIDNEY
  
IN THE NIGHT
  
THE DREAM OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS
  
THE SQUIRT-GUN UNCLE MAKED ME
  
THE YOUTHFUL PRESS
  
MAX AND JIM
  
THE OLD HAYMOW
  
GUINEY-PIGS
  
BUSCH AND TOMMY
  
THE LUGUBRIOUS WHING-WHANG
  
LITTLE MANDY'S CHRISTMAS-TREE
  
THE FUNNIEST THING IN THE WORLD
  
A FRUIT-PIECE
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VOLUME VI
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VOLUME VII
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VOLUME VIII
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VOLUME IX

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CHRISTMAS AFTERTHOUGHT

After a thoughtful, almost painful pause,
Bub sighed, “I'm sorry fer old Santy Claus:—
They wuz no Santy Claus, ner couldn't be,
When he wuz ist a little boy like me!”
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