James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . ^I|| ^is/n mmm^ i =§vCTL° boy should succeed him in law. Theboys ambition was to play the banjo andthe drum. The father had his way f jr atime and the boy realized his desire later. The boy would rather fish than sit inthe little red school house. He preferredthe dusty roais and the sweet smellinggrass of the fields to the text in life he chose the wandering lifeof a strolling musician and the tramp ex-istance of a traveling sign painter to thetedium of humdrum village work. As a boy you may see him gettingclose to the poetry of things wh
James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . ^I|| ^is/n mmm^ i =§vCTL° boy should succeed him in law. Theboys ambition was to play the banjo andthe drum. The father had his way f jr atime and the boy realized his desire later. The boy would rather fish than sit inthe little red school house. He preferredthe dusty roais and the sweet smellinggrass of the fields to the text in life he chose the wandering lifeof a strolling musician and the tramp ex-istance of a traveling sign painter to thetedium of humdrum village work. As a boy you may see him gettingclose to the poetry of things which layabout him, the poetry of fields of corn, offarm houses, of river and ford, the poetryof the unheroic as judged by the standardsof poetic heroism. You may imagine the boy filled withthe unrest which comes from poetic feel-ing without the ability of poetic expres-sion, feeling the poetry of the corn grow-ing in the heat, of the bees iffthe^s^eetclover, of the cows knee deep inof the river cool in the shade, of er. 1 There the bull rushes growed.
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