WITH THE COLORS

CONTENTS


I--WITH THE COLORS

The Colors 9
Loyalty 10
The Old National Guard 11
The Alien 13
The 'Skeeter Fleet 17
Little Mother 18
Soldiers of the Soil 20
The Lady's Man 22
Cookie Jim 23
The Sandwich Girl 25
Bugler Bill 28
Heinie the Hostler 29
Our Job 31
Her Johnny 33
The First Fleet 34
Briggs of Base No. 8 36
The Penguin Driver 39
Waitin' 40
We're All Right Here 42
Reprisal 44
The Soul of Sergeant Todd 45
The Busy Lady 47
Overdoing It 49
The Givers 50
Hullo, Soldier, How's the Boy? 52
Beans 54
Behind the Lines 56
The Disappointed 58
Good-bye, Boys! 60
That's All 61
An American Creed 63


II--IN OTHER KEYS

Youth o' the Year 67
Unfinished 69
Paid in Advance 70
We Rode at Night 71
Now--and Then 73
Understood 74
The Christmas Spirit 75
The Reason 76
The Modern Way 77
Because----! 79
That Smile 80
The Gift of Gifts 81
The Neighbors 82
Uncle Bill's Idea 83
'Lizabeth Ann's Picture 85
The Small Boy Explains 87
The Bold Lover 88
Imagination 89
Willing to Trade 91
The Lonely Child 93
Th' Little Feller's Gone 95
The Fisherman's Son 97
The Dog Confesses 99
Br'er Rabbit in de Bresh Pile 101
When 104




WITH THE COLORS


THE COLORS

It isn't just colors and bunting--
The red and the blue and the white.
It's something heaps better and finer,--
It's the _soul_ of my country _in sight!_