James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . iSi ILLUSTRATIONS - Continued. PAGE Mayor George Carr, of Greenfield, one of Rileysearly friends 43 Rileys boyhood home in Greenfield 45 John Davis, one of Rileys boyhood friends. ... 47 How peasant the journey down the old dustylane 53 Sign painted by Riley now in use in a Greenfieldbank 55 Main Street, Greenfield 57 A masterpiece by Riley 59 Old Masonic Hall, scene of Rileys early theat-rical efforts • • • 61 The Morris Pierson homestead where Rileywrote some of his early verse 65 Where the cows slept on the cold, dewy grass 67 Way back in the airl


James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . iSi ILLUSTRATIONS - Continued. PAGE Mayor George Carr, of Greenfield, one of Rileysearly friends 43 Rileys boyhood home in Greenfield 45 John Davis, one of Rileys boyhood friends. ... 47 How peasant the journey down the old dustylane 53 Sign painted by Riley now in use in a Greenfieldbank 55 Main Street, Greenfield 57 A masterpiece by Riley 59 Old Masonic Hall, scene of Rileys early theat-rical efforts • • • 61 The Morris Pierson homestead where Rileywrote some of his early verse 65 Where the cows slept on the cold, dewy grass 67 Way back in the airly days 69 f^Fhe husky, rusty russel of the tassels of the =^e6rn A/P 7I The Sugar CreeTt-Eord .............; •... 73 Timber thick enugh to sorto shade the crick 75The new swimming hole 77. ILLUSTRATIONS—Continued. With tangled tops whare dead leaves shakes. 81 Thomas Carr,Tuba Tom of the New Band 83 And the sunshine and shadder fell over it all 85 Tell of the old log house—about the loft andthe puncheon floor— 87 The New Band 88 And rag weed and fennel and grass is as sweetas the scent of the lilies of Eden of old .89 He jest natcherly pined, night and day, fer asight of the woods, ev a acre of groundwhare the trees wasent all cleared away. 91 Pen and Ink Sketch of Riley 93 Elmer Swope, an early acquaintance of Riley. 95 Riley in 1888 96


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