The Bear-Story (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
THAT ALEX "IST MAKED UP HIS-OWN-SE'F"W'y, wunst they wuz a Little Boy went outIn the woods to shoot a Bear. ...
THAT ALEX "IST MAKED UP HIS-OWN-SE'F"W'y, wunst they wuz a Little Boy went outIn the woods to shoot a Bear. ...
THE OLD SNOW-MANHo! the old Snow-Man That Noey Bixler made!He looked as fierce and sassy As a soldier on parade!--'Cause Noey, when ...
UNCLE JOHN, he makes me tired;Thinks 'at he's jest so all-firedSmart, 'at he kin pick up, so,Ever'thing he wants to ...
I'm thist a little cripple boy, an' never goin' to growAn' get a great big man at all!--'cause Aunty told ...
Pa he bringed me here to stay 'Til my Ma she's well.--An' nen He's go' hitch up, Chris'mus-day, An' come take me back ...
Pap's got his patent-right, and rich is all creation;But where's the peace and comfort that we all had before?Le's go ...
On the banks o' Deer Crick! There's the place fer me!-- Worter slidin' past ye jes as clair as it kin be:-- See ...
Right here at home, boys, in old Hoosierdom, Where strangers allus joke us when they come, And brag o' _their_ old States ...
I' got no patience with blues at all! And I ust to kindo talk Aginst 'em, and claim, 'tel along last Fall, They ...
When we hear Uncle Sidney tell About the long-ago An' old, old friends he loved so well When _he_ was young--My-oh!-- Us childern all ...
This is "The old Home by the Mill"--far we still call it so, Although the old mill, roof and sill, is ...
Noey Bixler ketched him, and fetched him in to me When he's ist a little teenty-weenty baby-coon'Bout as big as little ...
Me an' Bert an' Minnie-Belle Knows a joke, an' we won't tell! No, we don't--'cause we don't know _Why_ we got to laughin' ...
Old October's purt' nigh gone,And the frosts is comin' onLittle heavier every day--Like our hearts is thataway!Leaves is changin' overheadBack ...
One time, when we'z at Aunty's house-- 'Way in the country!--whereThey's ist but woods--an' pigs, an' cows-- An' all's out-doors an' air!--An' ...
First she come to our house, Tommy run and hid; And Emily and Bob and me We cried jus' like we did When Mother ...
When frost's all on our winder, an' the snow's All out-o'-doors, our "Old-Kriss"-milkman goes A-drivin' round, ist purt'-nigh froze to death, With his ...
Picnics is fun 'at's purty hard to beat. I purt'-nigh ruther go to them than _eat_. I purt'-nigh ruther go to them ...
Adieu to Belashanny! where I was bred and born; Go where I may, I'll think of you, as sure as ...
O the Raggedy Man! He works fer Pa; An' he's the goodest man ever you saw! He comes to our ...
I ain't a-goin' to cry no more, no more! I'm got ear-ache, an' Ma can't make It quit a-tall; An' ...
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