. What pictures to see in America. — ^O isjs^ -^ & cT O -^ ^CS| •-3 a rt •?-H (-1 oj^ -^ ID U ^ ^ o 2 >- ^o< . . ?/5 ~ ? fc^: •-I T- u 0 cP^S Si ? w a . C m o INDIANAPOLIS 289 of truth in the Old Swimmin Hole andscores of other poems. Mr. Riley began to ab-sorb the characteristics of the hoosier—per-haps derived from Whos yere?—when amere child. He was the constant companionof his father, an attorney-at-law, and on courtdays in some obscure corner of the courtroomhe w^as unconsciously preparing for his fu-ture career. Several of his earlier years werespent wandering over the coun
. What pictures to see in America. — ^O isjs^ -^ & cT O -^ ^CS| •-3 a rt •?-H (-1 oj^ -^ ID U ^ ^ o 2 >- ^o< . . ?/5 ~ ? fc^: •-I T- u 0 cP^S Si ? w a . C m o INDIANAPOLIS 289 of truth in the Old Swimmin Hole andscores of other poems. Mr. Riley began to ab-sorb the characteristics of the hoosier—per-haps derived from Whos yere?—when amere child. He was the constant companionof his father, an attorney-at-law, and on courtdays in some obscure corner of the courtroomhe w^as unconsciously preparing for his fu-ture career. Several of his earlier years werespent wandering over the country decoratingthe fences and roadsides with business signsto please the people and entice their trade. Atone time he even had yearnings toward por-trait painting, but signs brought larger re-turns for his time. With such a man as James Whitcomb Rileyfor a subject, Mr. Sargent must have felt thetingle of a war-horse on his mettle. And theportrait is proof that he recognized the subtletraits of the man who is known as the Burnsof America. The portrait is true to the man—humorous yet ever kindly, witty with nosting, seeing weakness but with the
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