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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 45521 ***
+
+HOME AGAIN WITH ME
+
+By James Whitcomb Riley
+
+Drawings by
+
+Howard Chandler Christy
+
+Decorations by Franklin Booth
+
+Indianapolis
+
+The Bobbs-Merrill Company
+
+[Illustration: 0007]
+
+[Illustration: 0010]
+
+BRAUNWORTH & CO.
+
+BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS
+
+BROOKLYN, N. Y.
+
+[Illustration: 0012]
+
+[Illustration: 0013]
+
+DEDICATION
+
+HIS LOVE OF HOME
+
+"As {0014}love of native land," the old man said,
+
+'Er stars and stripes a-wavin' overhead,
+
+Er nearest kith-and-kin, er daily bread,
+
+A Hoosier's love is for the old homestead."
+
+HOME AGAIN WITH ME
+
+[Illustration: 0015]
+
+|I'M {0015}a-feelin' ruther sad,
+
+Fer a father proud and glad
+
+As I am--my only child
+
+Home, and all so rickonciléd!--
+
+```Feel so strange-like, and don't know
+
+```What the mischief ails me so!--
+
+[Illustration: 0017]
+
+[Illustration: 0019]
+
+```'Stid {0020}o' _bad_, I ort to be
+
+```Feelin' good _pertickerly_--
+
+```Yes, and extry thankful, too,---
+
+```'Cause my nearest kith-and-kin,
+
+```My Elviry's schoolin' 's through,
+
+```And I' got her home ag'in--
+
+`````Home ag'in with me!
+
+[Illustration: 0021]
+
+[Illustration: 0023]
+
+My {0024}Elviry's schoolin' 's through,
+
+And I' got her home ag'in --
+
+```Same as ef her mother'd bin
+
+```Livin', I have done my best
+
+```By the girl, and watchfulest;
+
+```Nussed her--keerful' as I could--
+
+```From a baby, day and night,--
+
+```Drawin' on the neighberhood
+
+```And the women-folks as light
+
+```As needsessity 'u'd 'low--
+
+```'Cept in "teethin'," onc't, and fight
+
+```Through black-measles.....
+
+[Illustration: 0025]
+
+[Illustration: 0027]
+
+Same as ef her mother'd bin
+
+Livin', I have done my best
+
+`````Don't know now
+
+```How we ever saved the child!
+
+```Doc _hed_ give her up, and said
+
+```(As I stood there by the bed
+
+```Sort o' foolin' with her hair
+
+```On the hot wet piller there)
+
+```"Wuz no use!"--And at them-air
+
+```Very words she waked and smiled--
+
+```Yes, and _knowed_ me. And that's where
+
+```I broke down, and simply jes
+
+```Bellered like a boy--I guess!--
+
+[Illustration: 0029]
+
+[Illustration: 0031]
+
+```_Women_ claimed I did, but I
+
+```Alius helt I _didn't_ cry
+
+```But wuz laughin',--and I _wuz_,--
+
+```(Men _don't_ cry like _women_ does!)
+
+```Well, right then and there I felt
+
+```'T 'uz her mother's doin's, and,
+
+```Jes like to myse'f, I knelt,
+
+```Whisperin' "_I understand_."...
+
+[Illustration: 0033]
+
+
+35
+
+```So I've raised her, you might say,
+
+```Stric'ly in the narrer way
+
+```'At her mother walked therein--
+
+```Not so quite _religiously_,
+
+```Yit still strivin'-like to do
+
+```Ever'thing a father _could_
+
+```Do he knowed the _mother_ would
+
+```Ef she'd lived.--And now all's through
+
+```And I' got her home ag'in--
+
+`````Home ag'in with me!=
+
+
+
+[Illustration: 0036]
+
+[Illustration: 0037]
+
+[Illustration: 0039]
+
+```And I' bin so lonesome, too--
+
+```Here o' late, especially,--
+
+```"Old Aunt Abigail," you know,
+
+```Ain't no company;--and so
+
+```Jes the hired hand, you see--
+
+```Jonas--like a relative
+
+```More--sence he come here to live
+
+```With us, nigh ten year' ago.
+
+[Illustration: 0041]
+
+[Illustration: 0043]
+
+```Still he don't count much, you know.
+
+```In the line o' company--
+
+```Lonesome, 'peared-like, 'most as me!
+
+```So, as _I_ say, I' bin so
+
+```Special lonesome-like and blue,
+
+```With Elviry, like she's bin,
+
+```'Way so much, last two er three
+
+```Year'.--But now she's home ag'in--
+
+`````Home ag'in with me!
+
+[Illustration: 0045]
+
+[Illustration: 0047]
+
+```Driv in fe'r her yisterday,
+
+```Me and Jonas--gay and spry,--
+
+```We jes cut up, all the way!--
+
+```Yes, and sung!--tel, blame it! I
+
+```Keyed my voice up 'bout as high
+
+```As when--days 'at I wuz young--
+
+```"Buckwheat-notes" wuz all they sung
+
+```Jonas bantered me, and 'greed
+
+```To sing one 'at town-folks sing
+
+```Down at Split Stump 'er High-Low--
+
+[Illustration: 0049]
+
+[Illustration: 0051]
+
+```Some new "ballet," said, 'at he'd
+
+```Learnt--about "The Grapevine Swing."
+
+```And when _he_ quit, _I_ begun
+
+```To chune up my voice and run
+
+```Through the what's-called "scales" and "do
+
+```Sol-me-rays" I _ust_ to know--
+
+```Then let loose old favor_ite_ one,
+
+```"Hunters o' Kentucky!" _My!_
+
+```Tel I thought the boy would _die!_
+
+```And we _both_ laughed......
+
+[Illustration: 0053]
+
+[Illustration: 0055]
+
+`````Yes, and still
+
+```Heerd _more_ laughin', top the hill;
+
+```Fer we'd _missed_ Elviry's train,
+
+```And she'd lit out 'crosst the fields--
+
+```Dewdrops dancin' at her heels,--
+
+```And cut up old Smoots's lane
+
+```So's to meet us. And there in
+
+```Shadder o' the chinkypin,
+
+```With a danglin' dogwood-bough
+
+```Bloomin' 'bove her--See her now!--
+
+[Illustration: 0057]
+
+[Illustration: 0059]
+
+```Sunshine sort o' flickerin' down
+
+```And a kind o' laughin' all
+
+```Round her new red parasol,
+
+```Try'n' to git at _her!_--well--like
+
+```_I_ jumped out and showed 'em how!
+
+```Yes, and jes the place to strike
+
+```That-air mouth o' hern--as sweet
+
+```As the blossoms breshed her brow
+
+```Er sweet-williams round her feet---
+
+[Illustration: 0061]
+
+[Illustration: 0063]
+
+```White and blushy, too, as she
+
+```"Howdy'd" up to Jonas and
+
+```Jieuked her head and waved her hand.
+
+```"_Hey!_" says I, as she bounced in
+
+```The spring-wagon, reachin' back
+
+```To give _me_ a lift, "_whoop-ee! _"
+
+```I-says-ee, "_you're home agin--
+
+`````Home agin with me!_"
+
+[Illustration: 0065]
+
+[Illustration: 0067]
+
+```Lord! how _wild_ she wuz and glad,
+
+```Gittin' home!--and things she had
+
+```To inquire about, and talk--
+
+```Plowin', plantin', and the stock--
+
+```News o' neighberhood; and how
+
+```Wuz the Deem-girls doin' now,
+
+```Sence that-air young chicken-hawk
+
+```They was "tamin'" soared away
+
+```With their settin'-hen, one day?--
+
+```(Said she'd got Marne's postal-card
+
+```'Bout it, very day 'at she
+
+```Started home from Bethany.)
+
+[Illustration: 0069]
+
+[Illustration: 0071]
+
+```How wuz pro-duce--eggs, and lard?--
+
+```Er wuz stores still claimin' "hard
+
+```Times," as usual? And, says she,
+
+```Troubled-like, "How's Deedie--say?
+
+```Sence pore child e-loped away
+
+```And got back, and goin' to 'ply
+
+```Fer school-license by and by--
+
+```And where's 'Lijy workin' at?
+
+```And how's  'Aunt' and 'Uncle Jake'?
+
+```How wuz 'Old Maje'--and the cat?
+
+```And wuz Marthy's baby fat
+
+```As his 'Humpty-Dumpty' ma!--
+
+[Illustration: 0073]
+
+[Illustration: 0075]
+
+```Sweetest thing she ever saw!--
+
+```Must run 'crosst and see 'em, too,
+
+```Soon as she turned in and got
+
+```Supper fer us--smokin'-hot--
+
+```And the 'dishes' all wuz through.--"
+
+```_Sich_ a supper! W'y, I set
+
+```There and et, and et, and et!--
+
+```Jes et on, tel Jonas he
+
+```Pushed his chair back, laughed, and says,
+
+```"I could walk _his_ log!"
+
+[Illustration: 0077]
+
+[Illustration: 0080]
+
+`````And we
+
+```All laughed then, tel 'Viry she
+
+```Lit the lamp--and I give in!--
+
+```Riz and kissed her: "Heaven bless
+
+```You!" says I--"you're home ag'in--
+
+```Same old dimple in your chin,
+
+```Same white apern," I-says-ee,
+
+```"Same sweet girl, and good to see
+
+```As your _mother_ ust to be,--
+
+```And I' got you home ag'in--
+
+`````Home ag-'in with me!"...
+
+[Illustration: 0082]
+
+[Illustration: 0084]
+
+[Illustration: 0085]
+
+[Illustration: 0086]
+
+[Illustration: 0088]
+
+
+`````And by and by
+
+```Heerd Elviry, soft and low,
+
+```At the organ, kind o' go
+
+```A mi-anderin' up and down
+
+```With her fingers 'mongst the keys-
+
+```"Vacant Chair" and "Old Camp-
+
+`````Groun'."...
+
+```Dusk was moist-like, with a breeze
+
+```Lazin' round the locus'-trees...
+
+```Heerd the hosses champin', and
+
+```Jonas feedin'--and the hogs--
+
+```Yes, and katydids and frogs--
+
+```And a tree-toad, som'er's...
+
+[Illustration: 0090]
+
+[Illustration: 0092]
+
+`````Heerd
+
+```Also whipperwills.--My land!--
+
+```All so mournful ever'where--
+
+```Them out here, and her in there,
+
+```That the whole thing railly 'peared
+
+```'Most like 'tendin' _Services!_
+
+```_Anyway_, I must 'a' jes
+
+```Kind o' drapped asleep, I guess;
+
+```'Cause when Jonas must 'a' passed
+
+```Me, a-comin' in, I knowed
+
+```Nothin' of it--yit it seemed
+
+```Sort o' like I kind o' dreamed
+
+```'Bout him, too, a-slippin' in,
+
+[Illustration: 0094]
+
+[Illustration: 0096]
+
+```And a-watchin' back to see
+
+```Ef I _wuz_ asleep--and then
+
+```Passin' in where 'Viry wuz--
+
+```And where, I declare, it does
+
+```'Pear to me I heerd him say,
+
+```Wild and glad and whisperin'--
+
+```'Peared-like heerd him say, says-ee
+
+```"Ah! I' got you home ag'in--
+
+````Home ag'in witn me!"
+
+[Illustration: 0098]
+
+[Illustration: 0100]
+
+
+
+
+
+
+End of Project Gutenberg's Home Again With Me, by James Whitcomb Riley
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 45521 ***