Transcriber's Note: Dialect has been retained as it appears in theoriginal publication.


THE
OLD SOLDIER'S STORY

Poems and Prose Sketches


JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY


Indianapolis

THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS


Copyright 1913, 1914, 1915

James Whitcomb Riley

PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.

TO

GEORGE THOMPSON, ESQ.


"Apples ben ripe in my gardayne"


CONTENTS

PAGE
The Old Soldier's Story1
Somep'n Common-like 5
Monsieur le Secretaire 6
A Phantom 7
In the Corridor 8
Louella Wainie 9
The Text 11
William Brown 12
Why 14
The Touch of Loving Hands 15
A Test 16
A Song for Christmas 17
Sun and Rain 19
With Her Face 20
My Night 21
The Hour Before the Dawn 22
Good-by, Old Year 23
False and True 24
A Ballad from April 25
...

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