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Title: Home Again With Me
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Author: James Whitcomb Riley

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HOME AGAIN WITH ME  

By James Whitcomb Riley  




Drawings by Howard Chandler Christy 

Decorations by Franklin  Booth  

Indianapolis 

1908 

The Bobbs-Merrill Company  




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DEDICATION  

HIS LOVE OF HOME  


"As 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  





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I'M 016a-feelin' ruther sad,  

Fer a father proud and glad  

As I ammy only child  

Home, and all so rickonciléd!  

Feel so strange-like, and don't know  

What the mischief ails me so!  




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'Stid 020o' 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!  




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My024Elviry'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 herkeerful' 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.....  




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Same 028as 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 boyI guess!  




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Women 032claimed 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."...  




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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!  





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And 040I' 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  

Jonaslike a relative  

Moresence he come here to live  

With us, nigh ten year' ago.  




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Still 044he don't count much, you know.  

In the line o' company  

Lonesome, 'peared-like, 'most as me!  

So, as Isay, 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!  




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Drivin' 048fe'r her yisterday,  

Me and Jonasgay and spry,  

We jes cut up, all the way!  

Yes, and sung!tel, blame it! I  

Keyed my voice up 'bout as high  

As whendays '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  




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Some 052new "ballet," said, 'at he'd  

Learntabout "The Grapevine Swing."  

And when hequit, Ibegun  

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 favorite one,  

"Hunters o' Kentucky!" My!  

Tel I thought the boy would die!  

And we both laughed......  




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Yes, 056and 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 herSee her now!  




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Sunshine 060sort o' flickerin' down  

And a kind o' laughin' all  

Round her new red parasol,  

Try'n' to git at her!welllike  

Ijumped out and showed 'em how!  

Yes, and jes the place to strike  

That-air mouth o' hernas sweet  

As the blossoms breshed her brow  

Er sweet-williams round her feet-  




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White 064and 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 mea lift, "whoop-ee! "  

I-says-ee, "you're home agin 

Home agin with me!"  




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Lord! 068how 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.)  




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How 072wuz pro-duceeggs, and lard?  

Er wuz stores still claimin' "hard  

Times," as usual? And, says she,  

Troubled-like, "How's Deediesay?  

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!  




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Sweetest 076thing she ever saw!  

Must run 'crosst and see 'em, too,  

Soon as she turned in and got  

Supper fer ussmokin'-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!"  




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And 081we

All laughed then, tel 'Viry she  

Lit the lampand 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!"...  




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I turns then to go on by'er  

Through the doorand see her eyes  

Both wuz swimmin', and she tries  

To say somepin'can'tand so  

Grabs and hugs and lets me go. . . . .  

Noticed Aunty'd lit the fire  

In the settin'-room and gone  

Back where her p'serves wuz on  

B'ilin' in the kitchen. ..... I  

Went out on the porch and set,  

Thinkin'-like....Thinkin'-like....  




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And 089by 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...  




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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 ityit it seemed  

Sort o' like I kind o' dreamed  

'Bout him, too, a-slippin' in,  




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And 097a-watchin' back to see  

Ef I wuz asleepand 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!"  




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