James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . reach the hearts of men, he probablywould have been the good natured vil-lage grocery wit whose stories held sym-pathetic audiences through long winterevenings, whose sayings would have beenrepeated with laughter by his towns peo-ple, whose happy, shiftless life would havecaused many wiseacres to shake theirheads and say: If Jim Rileyd only work hed makehis mark, but you cant get him to work. He might have been the soft heartedRip Van Winkle of a little Indiana town,a man whose efforts were ready in behalfof a friend and slothful for self interest;th
James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . reach the hearts of men, he probablywould have been the good natured vil-lage grocery wit whose stories held sym-pathetic audiences through long winterevenings, whose sayings would have beenrepeated with laughter by his towns peo-ple, whose happy, shiftless life would havecaused many wiseacres to shake theirheads and say: If Jim Rileyd only work hed makehis mark, but you cant get him to work. He might have been the soft heartedRip Van Winkle of a little Indiana town,a man whose efforts were ready in behalfof a friend and slothful for self interest;the man about whom the children wouldcluster and concerning whom the house-wives would shake their heads. After his successful poems had placedhim in the front rank o£ American poetswho find their themes in the lives of thehumble there arose many to declare thatwhat was gained by poetry was lost bythe stage; that James Whitcomb Rileywould have put his name alongside.
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