HERR WEISER--HEADPIECE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 AND LILY AND ASTER AND COLUMBINE . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 HERR WEISER--TAILPIECE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 A MOTHER-SONG--HEADPIECE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 WHAT "OLD SANTA" OVERHEARD--HEADPIECE . . . . . . . . . 160 WHAT "OLD SANTA" OVERHEARD--TAILPIECE . . . . . . . . . 161 WHEN OLD JACK DIED--HEADPIECE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 WE COULDN'T ONLY CRY WHEN OLD JACK DIED . . . . . . . . 165 WHEN OLD JACK DIED--TAILPIECE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 THAT NIGHT--HEADPIECE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 THAT NIGHT--TAILPIECE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 TO ALMON KEEFER--HEADPIECE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 UNDER "THE OLD SWEET APPLE TREE" . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 TO ALMON KEEFER--TAILPIECE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 TO THE QUIET OBSERVER--HEADPIECE . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 TO THE QUIET OBSERVER--TAILPIECE . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 REACH YOUR HAND TO ME--HEADPIECE . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 REACH YOUR HAND TO ME, MY FRIEND . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 REACH YOUR HAND TO ME--TAILPIECE . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 THE DEAD JOKE AND THE FUNNY MAN--HEADPIECE . . . . . . . 180 THE DEAD JOKE AND THE FUNNY MAN--TAILPIECE . . . . . . . 181 AMERICA'S THANKSGIVING--HEADPIECE . . . . . . . . . . . 182 OLD INDIANY--HEADPIECE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 BUT, FELLERS, SHE'S A LEAKY STATE! . . . . . . . . . . . 187 OLD INDIANY--TAILPIECE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 {23} RILEY SONGS OF FRIENDSHIP [Illustration: Back from town--headpiece] BACK FROM TOWN Old friends allus is the best, Halest-like and heartiest: Knowed us first, and don't allow We're so blame much better now! They was standin' at the bars When we grabbed "the kivvered kyars" And lit out fer town, to make Money--and that old mistake! {24} We thought then the world we went Into beat "The Settlement," And the friends 'at we'd make there Would beat any anywhere!-- And they do--fer that's their biz: They beat all the friends they is-- 'Cept the raal old friends like you 'At staid at home, like I'd ort to! W'y, of all the good things yit I ain't shet of, is to quit Business, and git back to sheer These old comforts waitin' here-- These old friends; and these old hands 'At a feller understands; These old winter nights, and old Young-folks chased in out the cold! Sing "Hard Times'll come ag'in No More!" and neighbors all jine in! Here's a feller come from town Wants that-air old fiddle down From the chimbly!--Git the floor Cleared fer one cowtillion more!-- It's poke the kitchen fire, says he, And shake a friendly leg with me! {25} [Illustration: A hobo voluntary--headpiece] A HOBO VOLUNTARY