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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Afterwhiles, by James Whitcomb Riley
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Title: Afterwhiles
Author: James Whitcomb Riley
Release Date: May 19, 2005 [EBook #15862]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
- START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AFTERWHILES ***
Produced by "Teary Eyes" Anderson
***Transcriber's Note.
Most of this etext was made with a "Top Scan" text scanner, with a bit of correcting here and there. Mr. Riley does spell pretty=purty and such things and have been left as printed, including the first poem in this book listed as "Proem" on both the contents page and the page headers, even though in later editions this poem is simply called "Afterwhiles." In "The South Wind and the Sun" the line is 'Laughed out in every look.' while in later versions it has the word 'nook', replacing 'look.' The poem "Old Aunt Mary's" is later retitled "Out To Old Aunt Mary's" and later enlarged by 13 verses. The "In Dalect" section has the ' to replace a letter that he left out, to make the word sound a certain way, including words like sure-enuff he writes as sho'-nuff, or He'pless as helpless and ect. This etext is based on the 1898 edition Published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis Publishers. "Teary Eyes" Anderson***
Afterwhiles by James Whitcomb Riley
Dedicated to my mother Elizabeth
Contents
Proem (AKA "Afterwhiles")
Herr Weiser
The Beautiful City
Lockerbie