NYE AND RILEY'S Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) By James Whitcomb Riley, and Bill Nye Illustrated CONTENTS August—Riley 32 Anecdotes of Jay Gould—Nye 23 A Black Hills Episode—Riley 132 A Blasted Snore—Nye 190 A Brave Refrain—Riley 188 A Character—Riley 142 A Dose't of Blues—Riley 220 A Fall Creek View of the Earthquake—Riley 30 A Hint of Spring—Riley 168 A Letter of Acceptance—Nye 56 A Treat Ode—Riley 170 Craqueodoom—Riley 81 Curly Locks—Riley 118 Ezra House—Riley 161 From Delphi to Camden—Riley 75 Good-bye or Howdy-do—Riley 195 Healthy, but Out of the Race—Nye 101 Her Tired Hands—Nye 152 His Crazy Bone—Riley 89 His Christmas Sled—Riley 150 His First Womern—Riley 41 How to Hunt the Fox—Nye 46 In a Box—Riley 214 In the Afternoon—Riley 65 Julius Cæsar in Town—Nye 34 Lines on Hearing a Cow Bawl—Riley 107 Lines on Turning Over a Pass—Nye 120 Me and Mary—Riley 109 McFeeters' Fourth—Riley 211 My Bachelor Chum—Riley 178 Mr Silberberg—Riley 96 Niagara Falls from the Nye Side—Nye 111 Never Talk Back—Riley 20 Oh, Wilhelmina, Come Back—Nye 165 Our Wife—Nye 172 Prying Open the Future—Nye 90 Says He—Riley 204 Seeking to Be Identified—Nye 228 Seeking to Set the Public Right—Nye 216 Spirits at Home—Riley 99 Society Gurgs from Sandy Mush—Nye 197 Sutter's Claim—Riley 226 This Man Jones—Riley 43 That Night—Riley 124 The Boy Friend—Riley 54 The Chemist of the Carolinas—Nye 82 The Diary of Darius T Skinner—Nye 144 The Grammatical Boy—Nye 77 The Gruesome Ballad of Mr Squincher—Riley 21 The Man in the Moon—Riley 148 The Philanthropical Jay—Nye 180 The Truth about Methuselah—Nye 126 The Tar-heel Cow—Nye 137 The Rise and Fall of William Johnson—Nye 66 The Rossville Lecture Course—Riley 134 Wanted, a Fox—Nye 222 Where He First Met His Parents—Nye 17 Where the Roads are Engaged in Forking—Nye 206 While Cigarettes to Ashes Turn—Riley 201 Why It Was Done—Nye & Riley 11
THE OLD SOLDIER'S STORY Poems and Prose Sketches James Whitcomb Riley CONTENTS PAGE The Old Soldier's Story 1 Somep'n Common-like 5 Monsieur le Secretaire 6 A Phantom 7 In the Corridor 8 Louella Wainie 9 The Text 11 William Brown 12 Why 14 The Touch of Loving Hands 15 A Test 16 A Song for Christmas 17 Sun and Rain 19 With Her Face 20 My Night 21 The Hour Before the Dawn 22 Good-by, Old Year 23 False and True 24 A Ballad from April 25 Brudder Sims 27 Deformed 28 Faith 30 The Lost Thrill 31 At Dusk 32 Another Ride from Ghent to Aix 33 In the Heart of June 36 Dreams 37 Because 42 To the Cricket 43 The Old-fashioned Bible 44 Uncomforted 46 What They Said 48 After the Frost 50 Charles H. Phillips 51 When It Rains 53 An Assassin 55 Best of All 56 Bin a-Fishin' 57 Uncle Dan'l in Town Over Sunday 59 Soldiers Here To-day 61 Shadow and Shine 65 That Night 66 August 67 The Guide 68 Sutter's Claim 71 Her Light Guitar 73 While Cigarettes to Ashes Turn 74 Two Sonnets to the June-bug 77 Autographic 79 An Impromptu on Roller Skates 80 Written in Bunner's "Airs from Arcady" 81 In the Afternoon 82 At Madame Manicure's 84 A Caller from Boone 86 Lord Bacon 98 My First Womern 99 As We Read Burns 101 To James Newton Matthews 102 Song 103 When We Three Meet 105 Josh Billings 106 Which Ane 108 The Earthquake 111 A Fall-crick View of the Earthquake 112 Lewis D. Hayes 114 In Days to Come 116 Luther A. Todd 117 When the Hearse Comes Back 121 Our Old Friend Neverfail 124 Dan O'sullivan 126 John Boyle O'reilly 127 Meredith Nicholson 129 God's Mercy 130 Christmas Greeting 131 To Rudyard Kipling 132 The Gudewife 133 Tennyson 134 Rosamond C. Bailey 135 Mrs. Benjamin Harrison 136 George A. Carr 138 To Elizabeth 139 To Almon Keefer 140 To—"The J. W. R. Literary Club" 142 Little Maid-o'-dreams 143 To the Boy with a Country 145 Claude Matthews 146 To Lesley 147 The Judkins Papers 148 To the Quiet Observer—erasmus Wilson 165 America's Thanksgiving 166 William Pinkney Fishback 168 John Clark Ridpath 170 New Year's Nursery Jingle 173 To the Mother 174 To My Sister 175 A Motto 176 To a Poet on His Marriage 177 Art and Poetry 178 Her Smile of Cheer and Voice of Song 179 Old Indiany 180 Abe Martin 183 O. Henry 185 "Mona Machree" 186 William Mckinley 187 Benjamin Harrison 190 Lee O. Harris 192 The Highest Good 194 My Conscience 195 My Boy 197 The Object Lesson 198