James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . hanging willows. This unrest would besufficient to make him unstable as a worle-an in any line offered by the small is small wonder that he worked fitfullyas he grew into young manhood. It isless wonder that he was found beating adrum at the tail end of a medicine sellersorganization of musicians. It was justRileys protest against being fitted intothe life which did not belong to him andcould not be made his. When his triumph came it did notcome with a rush. The story of his suc-cess is a story of long effort and disap-pointment. A genius was
James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . hanging willows. This unrest would besufficient to make him unstable as a worle-an in any line offered by the small is small wonder that he worked fitfullyas he grew into young manhood. It isless wonder that he was found beating adrum at the tail end of a medicine sellersorganization of musicians. It was justRileys protest against being fitted intothe life which did not belong to him andcould not be made his. When his triumph came it did notcome with a rush. The story of his suc-cess is a story of long effort and disap-pointment. A genius was not discoveredwith Rileys first poem. A group of per-simmon trees is pointed out to the visitorin Greenfield. Under these trees, it is said,Riley wrote his first verses. That was inthe early days when efforts to expresswere struggling with feeling. These poems came into a world whichheeded them little. Rejected by magazineeditors and publishers some of them metan untimely end. Others found their ^.
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