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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Home Again With Me + Illustrated + +Author: James Whitcomb Riley + +Illustrator: Howard Chandler Christy and Franklin Booth + +Release Date: April 28, 2014 [EBook #45521] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOME AGAIN WITH ME *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger from page images generously +provided by the Internet Archive + + + + + + + +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! 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