NEGHBORLY POEMS AND DIALECT SKETCHES By James Whitcomb Riley CONTENTS THE OLD SWIMMIN'-HOLE, AND 'LEVEN MORE POEMS The Delights of our Childhood is soon Passed Away 2 The Old Swimmin'-Hole 3 Thoughts fer The Discuraged Farmer 6 A Summer's Day 9 A Hymb of Faith 13 Wortermelon Time 16 My Philosofy 20 When the Frost is on the Punkin 23 On the Death of Little Mahala Ashcraft 26 The Mulberry Tree 29 To my Old Friend, William Leachman 31 My Fiddle 36 The Clover 39 NEGHBORLY POEMS On Friendship, Grief and Farm-Life Us Farmers in the Country, as the Seasons go and Come 42 Erasmus Wilson 43 My Ruthers 48 On a Dead Babe 51 A Old Played-out Song 52 "Coon-dog Wess" 55 Perfesser John Clark Ridpath 62 A Tale of the Airly Days 66 "Mylo Jones's Wife" 68 On a Splendud Match 71 Old John Clevenger on Buckeyes 72 The Hoss 78 Ezra House 82 A Pen-Pictur' 86 Wet-weather Talk 90 Thoughts on a Pore Joke 93 A Mortul Prayer 94 The First Bluebird 96 Evagene Baker 97 On any Ordenary Man 100 Town and Country 101 Lines Writ fer Isaac Bradwell 103 Decoration Day on the Place 104 The Tree-Toad 107 The Rossville Lectur' Course 109 When the Green Gits Back in the Trees 112 How it Happened 114 A Dos't o' Blues 117 The Old Home by the Mill 119 The Way it Wuz 121 Pap's Old Sayin' 125 Romancin' 128 AN OLD SETTLER'S STORY 133 DIALECT IN LITERATURE 195 End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of James Whitcomb Riley, by James Whitcomb Riley