. The youth of James Whitcomb Riley; fortune's way with the poet from infancy to manhood. as known for his eloquence in de-bating clubs, had taught school, studied law in a neigh-boring county-seat, been admitted to the bar, and hadhad a limited practice in a prairie village in Iowa. Now it happens in this country, said AbrahamLincoln, that, for some reason or other, we meet onceevery year, somewhere about the Fourth of Fourth of July gatherings, I suppose, havetheir uses. Indeed, they do, and quite the firstof the uses of the Fourth of July gathering in NeeleysWoods, near the villa
. The youth of James Whitcomb Riley; fortune's way with the poet from infancy to manhood. as known for his eloquence in de-bating clubs, had taught school, studied law in a neigh-boring county-seat, been admitted to the bar, and hadhad a limited practice in a prairie village in Iowa. Now it happens in this country, said AbrahamLincoln, that, for some reason or other, we meet onceevery year, somewhere about the Fourth of Fourth of July gatherings, I suppose, havetheir uses. Indeed, they do, and quite the firstof the uses of the Fourth of July gathering in NeeleysWoods, near the village of Windsor, Randolph County,1843, was that Reuben A. Riley might meet ElizabethMarine and fall a victim to her beauty. It was a dayfor family reunions—a barbacue day, the roast con-sisting of several pigs, an ox, and five lambs. StonyCreek laughed through the wood, and there, too, playedthose other streams, the life-currents that ebb andflow in human hearts. There was the confusion ofwagons, the herd of country boys, babies tumblingon the ground, and men and maidens making The Poets Mother, About 1860
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