Rippling Rhymes

About this eBook

Author

Mason, Walt, 1862-1939

Credits

E-text prepared by Al Haines

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Prose poems

Category

Text

eBook-No.

22692

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22692

Release Date

September 21, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Umpire — RIPPLING RHYMES
2. 2.To Suit The Times All Sorts of Themes Embracin' Some Gay Some Sad Some not so Bad — AS WRITTEN BY — Chicago A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1913 — To GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS — ONE MOMENT, PLEASE! — CONTENTS — ILLUSTRATIONS — The Umpire . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece — The Gloomy Fan — The Buccaneers — The Sleeper Wakes — The Conqueror — The Old Timer — MORNING IN KANSAS — EDITORIAL INFLUENCE — FARM MACHINERY — THE STRONG MEN — THE SNOWY DAY — THE POOR MAN'S CLUB — WORDS AND DEEDS — A DAY OF REST — USE YOUR HEAD — THE GLOOMY FAN — The Gloomy Fan — THE PURIST — QUALIFICATIONS — THE POMPOUS MAN — INEFFICIENT MEN — LIFE'S INJUSTICE — THE POLITICIAN — RANDOM SHOTS — LOOK PLEASANT, PLEASE! — COURAGE — PLAY BALL — THE OLD SONGS — GUESSING VS. KNOWING — WHEN WOMEN VOTE — THE AGENT AT THE DOOR — GOOD AND BAD TIMES — BUCCANEERS — (The Pirate of 1612) — (The Pirate of 1912) — Buccaneers — ST. PATRICK'S DAY — NAMING THE BABY — WON AT LAST — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — THE GREATEST THING — THE UMPIRE — THE TWO MERCHANTS — TODAY'S MOTTO — SOME PROTESTS — THE WORKERS — THE UTILITARIAN — FIRESIDE ADVENTURES — HUNTING A JOB — OLD AND NEW — THE HANDY EDITOR — THE SLEEPER WAKES — The Sleeper Wakes — IN HORSELAND — INAUGURATION DAY, 1913 — PRAYER OF THE HEATHEN — THEORY AND PRACTICE — FOOL AND SAGE — THEN AND NOW — THE SLEEPER — FOOLING AROUND — GUESS WHO! — TRYING AGAIN — ICONOCLASM — GATHERING ROSES — THE FUTURE SPORT — TAKING ADVICE — POST-MORTEM INDUSTRY — THE CONQUEROR — The Conqueror — THE TRUTHFUL MERCHANT — STANDING PAT — THE OUTCAST — ODE TO KANSAS — DOMESTIC HAPPINESS — CELEBRITIES — THE VIRTUOUS EDITOR — THIS DISMAL AGE — BOOST THINGS — THE ADVENTURER — THEY ALL COME BACK — HOME BUILDERS — FAILURE AND SUCCESS — THE OPEN ROAD — Romance — Reality — THE MILLIONAIRES — LITTLE MISTAKES — EASY MORALITY — THE CRITIC — THE OLD TIMER — The Old Timer — THE BRIGHT FACE — LADIES AND GENTS — AUTUMN JOYS — THE LAND OF BORES — SKILLED LABOR — AN EDITORIAL SOLILOQUY — YOUTHFUL GRIEVANCES — SUNDAY — JOHN BARLEYCORN — CHRISTMAS DAY — A CRANK'S THANKSGIVING — THE BRIEF VISIT

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