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The complete works of James Whitcomb Riley Volume 7 ; in ten volumes, including poems and prose sketches, many of which have not heretofore been ... illustrations in color from paintings by How - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ... accept Any reception from parental source Save this incomprehensible voicelessness? O but the silence held its very breath! If but the ticking clock would only strike And for an instant drown the whispering, Lisping, sifting sound the katydids Made outside in the grassy nowhere! Far Down some back street he heard the faint halloo Of boys at their night-game of "Town-fox," But now with no desire at all to be Participating in their sport.--No; no;--Never again in this world would he want To join them there!--he only wanted just To stay in home of nights--Always--always--Forever and a day! He moved; and coughed--Coughed hoarsely, too, through his rolled tongue; and yet No vaguest of parental notice or Solicitude in answer--no response--No word--no look. O it was deathly still!--So still it was that really he could not Remember any prior silence that At all approached it in profundity And depth and density of utter hush. He felt that he himself must break it: So, Summoning every subtle artifice Of seeming nonchalance and native ease And naturalness of utterance to his aid, And gazing raptly at the house-cat where She lay curled in her wonted corner of The hearth-rug, dozing, he spoke airily And said: "I see you've got the same old cat! BEWILDERING EMOTIONS "I HE merriment that followed was subdued---I-As though the story-teller's attitude Were dual, in a sense, appealing quite As much to sorrow as to mere delight, According, haply, to the listener's bent Either of sad or merry temperament.--"And of your two appeals I much prefer The pathos," said "The Noted Traveler,"--"For should I live to twice my present years, I know I could not quite forget the tears That child-eyes bleed, the little palms nailed wide, And quiv...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1231055588
- ISBN 13 9781231055588
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages42
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