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Neghborly Poems and Dialect Sketches

Neghborly Poems and Dialect Sketches

by James Whitcomb Riley

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Author
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916
Credits
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Diane Monico, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Dialect literature, American
Category
Text
eBook-No.
37074
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37074
Release Date
August 14, 2011
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.NEGHBORLY POEMS AND DIALECT SKETCHES
  2. 2.PREFACE
  3. 3.SALUTATION TO BENJ. F. JOHNSON THE OLD MAN
  4. 4.CONTENTS
  5. 5."THE OLD SWIMMIN'-HOLE" AND 'LEVEN MORE POEMS BY BENJ. F. JOHNSON, OF BOONE
  6. 6.THE OLD SWIMMIN'-HOLE
  7. 7.THOUGHTS FER THE DISCURAGED FARMER
  8. 8.A SUMMER'S DAY
  9. 9.A HYMB OF FAITH
  10. 10.WORTERMELON TIME
  11. 11.MY PHILOSOFY
  12. 12.WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN
  13. 13.ON THE DEATH OF LITTLE MAHALA ASHCRAFT
  14. 14.THE MULBERRY TREE
  15. 15.TO MY OLD FRIEND, WILLIAM LEACHMAN
  16. 16.MY FIDDLE
  17. 17.THE CLOVER
  18. 18.NEGHBORLY POEMS ON FRIENDSHIP, GRIEF AND FARM-LIFE BY BENJ. F. JOHNSON, OF BOONE
  19. 19.ERASMUS WILSON
  20. 20.MY RUTHERS
  21. 21.ON A DEAD BABE
  22. 22.A OLD PLAYED-OUT SONG
  23. 23."COON-DOG WESS"
  24. 24.LINES TO PERFESSER JOHN CLARK RIDPATH A. M., LL. D. T-Y-TY!
  25. 25.A TALE OF THE AIRLY DAYS
  26. 26."MYLO JONES'S WIFE"
  27. 27.ON A SPLENDUD MATCH
  28. 28.OLD JOHN CLEVENGER ON BUCKEYES
  29. 29.THE HOSS
  30. 30.EZRA HOUSE
  31. 31.A PEN-PICTUR' OF A CERTIN FRIVVOLUS OLD MAN
  32. 32.WET-WEATHER TALK
  33. 33.THOUGHTS ON A PORE JOKE
  34. 34.A MORTUL PRAYER
  35. 35.THE FIRST BLUEBIRD
  36. 36.EVAGENE BAKER—WHO WAS DYIN' OF DRED CONSUMTION AS THESE LINES WAS PENNED BY A TRUE FRIEND
  37. 37.ON ANY ORDENARY MAN IN A HIGH STATE OF LAUGHTURE AND DELIGHT
  38. 38.TOWN AND COUNTRY
  39. 39.LINES FER ISAAC BRADWELL, OF INDANOPLIS, IND., COUNTY-SEAT OF MARION
  40. 40.DECORATION DAY ON THE PLACE
  41. 41.THE TREE-TOAD
  42. 42.THE ROSSVILLE LECTUR' COURSE
  43. 43.WHEN THE GREEN GITS BACK IN THE TREES
  44. 44.HOW IT HAPPENED
  45. 45.A DOS'T O' BLUES
  46. 46.THE OLD HOME BY THE MILL
  47. 47.THE WAY IT WUZ
  48. 48.PAP'S OLD SAYIN'
  49. 49.ROMANCIN'
  50. 50.AN OLD SETTLER'S STORY
  51. 51.AN OLD SETTLER'S STORY
  52. 52.DIALECT IN LITERATURE
  53. 53.DIALECT IN LITERATURE
  54. 54.Books By James Whitcomb Riley — Transcriber's Notes

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