The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-25

40 years of age. He was born and
grew up at Greenfield, Hancock
county, Ind, where his father,
Reuben Riley. still lives. He is lawyer,
and is q man of very marked peculiarities
and eccentricities. One of his peculiari-
ties is that he has identified himself with
every new political fad that has como up
in the last thirty years. He has
been successfully Greenbacker. q
Prohibitionist and Popuiist, not
for Office, but because he believed the
affairs of this country needed regulating.
and il wa. By these new parties the needed
reforms were to be accomplished. From
the plain country folk who were the clients
of his father. and who traded in the coun-
try town, Jim learned the dialect IN
which he has given US the smiles sand
tears of these simple people. And
in his youthful dreams and idle RAM
blings among the green fields and
along the bsbbling brooks. he stored his
poetic mind with the beauties OF nature.
the secrets Of wood, field and stream, the
telling of which in the sweet, comely
dialect, folk lore of the Hoosier country
people has charmed the readers of Eng
lish literature and brought to him undying
fame:
on the banks O. Deer Greek, there's the place
VORTEX slidin' ras, 70 ies a. clair a. 1. can be-
zee yer shadder in ii, and the shadder o. the
And the shsddsr o the burs.rd as hs goes
a-laxeiu bE:
shadd.r o the pis.n-vines and shadder o. the
trees
And purt'-nish said the shaddsr o. the sun.
shine and the breeze
On the banks Deer cresk-miid er two from
long up where the mill race comes a-lo.nn'
down
Ike to git up in thers-'mons,, the syc.-
And watch the wor.sr a, the dam. .-irO,hin' a.
she poGrS
On the banks o Deer Greek '-Allus nv deligh,
Jss 20 oe around ;here--lsks it day or night
Match the snlpes anu kiildees foolin' hal. the
Er them-.rs little wofier- bugs skootin ever
sake feeders gIsnctn round, er dartin' on, g.
And des fall and buiitrcg, and lghtnin- bug.
stars az tarough the tree-toPs err in the creek
below.
Aud smell o. mu.rst through TIE dark dam
from Old b'y'o!
Er take a tramp som. sund'y say way up to
johnson Hole.'
And aad whsrs he's had . fire. and hid his
shIn'-pole.
Have yer dog les,' with "a. and yer pipe and
ECU: ard dry
Pocket fuli o corn-osed, and aug sr two o.
re
soak yer hide in sunshine sad waller in the
shade
Like the good book tells us-"whers there's
uoae to make AFRAID,
WE'LL / never seen tae ocean nsr' never seen
the ses-
On tie haak. o Deer Greek s grad enough
tor mel
The father had no sympathy with Jim's
poetic instinct. and was decidedly of the
opinion that hoelng. plucklag tie unripe
weeds from the garden or yaaking the ripe
potato bug. were msch more desirable oc-
equations for Jim than holding close CON-
rgunion with nature IA the green feld or
iis5ening 10 the hAbbl.nr blue tavs and
;ssiterIng Robin Red egeasi's down around
The river.
No7ntrae sna Jaas-ss=s. dexa around tss
Ttvert
ClssE cat o sigss o. home. ana ssalkia' nzts,
kiyyNr
Of the .yeamores. JACK cas- aaa sw.zp AZ aud
I5sss a. 80 .ams,et Up yoa kia hATdly tell
'snt~-
Tired. yoa know. bet loving IL, ana .Eatiln' Jest
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