When The Hearse Comes Back (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A thing 'at's 'bout as tryin' as a healthy man kin meetIs some poor feller's funeral a-joggin' 'long the street:The ...
A thing 'at's 'bout as tryin' as a healthy man kin meetIs some poor feller's funeral a-joggin' 'long the street:The ...
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 ...
They's nothin' in the name to strike A feller more'n common like! 'Taint liable to git no praise Ner nothin' like it nowadays; An' ...
When Ezry, that's my sister's son, come home from furrin parts,He fetched the folks a lot of things ter brighten ...
Had a hare-lip-- Joney had:Spiled his looks, and Joney knowed it:Fellers tried to bore him, bad--But ef ever he got ...
"Mylo Jones's wife" was allI heerd, mighty near, last Fall--Visitun relations downT'other side of Morgantown!Mylo Jones's wife she doesThis and ...
The world is turned ag'in' me, And people says, "They guessThat nothin' else is in me But pure maliciousness!"I git the blame ...
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 ...
When Lide married _him_--w'y, she had to jes dee-fyThe whole poppilation!--But she never bat' an eye!Her parents begged, and _threatened_--she ...
Say, I've got a little brother,Never teased to have him, nuther, But he's here;They just went ahead and bought him,And, last ...
One 's the pictur' of his Pa, And the _other_ of her Ma-- Jes the bossest pair o' babies 'at a mortal ...
The Old Hay-mow's the place to playFer boys, when it's a rainy day!I good-'eal ruther be up thereThan down in ...
Wunst I looked our pepper-box lidAn' cut little pie-dough biscuits, I did,And cooked 'em on our stove one dayWhen our ...
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 ...
Father calls me William, sister calls me Will,Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers call me Bill!Mighty glad I ain't ...
I ain't afeard uv snakes, or toads, or bugs, or worms, or mice,An' things 'at girls are skeered uv I ...
Out in the woods with a dog an' gunIs my idea of a real day's fun.'Tain't the birds that I'm ...
BEIN' uncle to the kids,Laughin' lips an' drowsy lidsGrimy hands an' tattered clothes,Cheeks as red as any rose;Willie Browns an' ...
Good ev'nin', Mis' Priest. I jest stepped in to tell you Good-bye. Yes, it's all over. All my things is ...
I ain't afeard uv snakes, or toads, or bugs, or worms, or mice, An' things 'at girls are skeered uv ...
Tell you what I like the best -- 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the ...
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