James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . K^> reptitiously in the joys of corn silk cigar-ettes. He raided orchards. He was a small tow headed boy, with,as has been said, few buttons and manypins to hold his clothes together. Thereis a legend prevailing in Greenfield whichjars the swimming hole devotion whichRiley is supposed to have nourished. Itis related that the boy seldom went in thewater with the other youngsters, but pre-ferred to sit on the bank of the Brandy-wine and watch their antics in the water. The mother of a Greenfield hopeful,receiving her son one evening when hishair sti
James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . K^> reptitiously in the joys of corn silk cigar-ettes. He raided orchards. He was a small tow headed boy, with,as has been said, few buttons and manypins to hold his clothes together. Thereis a legend prevailing in Greenfield whichjars the swimming hole devotion whichRiley is supposed to have nourished. Itis related that the boy seldom went in thewater with the other youngsters, but pre-ferred to sit on the bank of the Brandy-wine and watch their antics in the water. The mother of a Greenfield hopeful,receiving her son one evening when hishair still was wet from the swimminghole, noticed that Jim evidently had notbeen in the water. Jim/ she said, u Why dont you goin swimming with the other boys? Well, Ill tell you/ said the boyslowly, ** I aint got many buttons on myclothes and Im ashamed to take out allthese pins when the other boys is look- n mg That story, no doubt, is mother was burdened with many ?.
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