Neghborly Poems and Dialect Sketches

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CONTENTS
THE OLD SWIMMIN'-HOLE, AND 'LEVEN MORE POEMS
The Delights of our Childhood is soon Passed Away
The Old Swimmin'-Hole
Thoughts fer The Discuraged Farmer
A Summer's Day
A Hymb of Faith
Wortermelon Time
My Philosofy
When the Frost is on the Punkin
On the Death of Little Mahala Ashcraft
The Mulberry Tree
To my Old Friend, William Leachman
My Fiddle
The Clover
NEGHBORLY POEMS
On Friendship, Grief and Farm-Life
Us Farmers in the Country, as the Seasons go and Come
Erasmus Wilson
My Ruthers
On a Dead Babe
A Old Played-out Song
"Coon-dog Wess"
Perfesser John Clark Ridpath
A Tale of the Airly Days
"Mylo Jones's Wife"
On a Splendud Match
Old John Clevenger on Buckeyes
The Hoss
Ezra House
A Pen-Pictur'
Wet-weather Talk
Thoughts on a Pore Joke
A Mortul Prayer
The First Bluebird
Evagene Baker
On any Ordenary Man
Town and Country
Lines Writ fer Isaac Bradwell
Decoration Day on the Place
The Tree-Toad 107
The Rossville Lectur' Course
When the Green Gits Back in the Trees
How it Happened
A Dos't o' Blues
The Old Home by the Mill
The Way it Wuz
Pap's Old Sayin'
Romancin'
AN OLD SETTLER'S STORY
DIALECT IN LITERATURE

About the Author
"James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American writer, poet, and best selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the Hoosier Poet and Children's Poet for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect. His famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man"." -- Wikipedia