Preface
The greater number of pieces in this book have previously appeared in various periodicals of the country, including the Chicago Record-Herald, Boston Journal, Brooklyn' Eagle, Pittsburg Sun, Fargo Forum, Moderator Topics, Will Carlton's Magazine, Outers' Book, World's Events, and other periodicals. A few of the selections have been printed in foreign periodicals, including the Glasgow Herald, Dumfries Standard, Ayr Observer, London News, and several Canadian publications.
For the illustrations appearing in the volume the author is greatly indebted to Miss Nelle M. Johnston and to Mr. James E. Raze.
The efforts of Mr, and Mrs. Geo. W. Skinner to make the volume presentable are greatly appreciated by the author, and he wishes to acknowledge also the kindness and support of his friends everywhere.
Floyd D. Raze.
Proem .
The Home of the Wild
Over the Hill
A Summer Evening
To a Frozen Waterfall
The Oak .
September
The Kinglet
Rose
To the Mississippi River
November
Change
Huckleberries
Sunset in Autumn
Burns
Winter Scenes
Minnehaha
Saskatchewan
Beyond the Stars
Our Creed
The Same Old Town
Black and White
Hallowe'en
Other Days
The Gift . .
The New Year Night
The Homestead
The Toilers
Mother Mine
The Mariner
Lost Years
I'll Think of You
Lover's Bower
Seeming
Remembrance
The Lookout
Ben and I
Home
Christmas
Lines
The Hudson Bay Trail
Page
The River Grand
Our Need .
De Hoss Dat's Call Heem "Gray"
Night
Harvest
De Sailah ,
Two Views
Wintah . ^ .
Summah
Once Ag'in
Loneliness
Rich and Poor
The Flag of '61
Lincoln — A Tribute
Farewell
Earnestness
Dry Shod
Dreams
The Dance
Twilight
My Little World
Thine
The Second Mile
July Fourth
The Forest
Native Haunts
The Kaiserin
The Prairies
The Warning .
My Autograph
Ma Femme
Gladness
Truthful Mike
Common Folk
The Laborer
The Lass O' Enderlin
The Paths of Yesterday
Massasoit and Samoset
Educational
Black Eyes or Blue
Send Me the News .
Lura Belle
Mr. Brookside Cedar
A Tale and a Moral
Page
The Country School .
To a College Chap
What Will It Matter?
The Shoveler's Song
Effort
I Forget
The Mill and the Miller .
Immortality
"English as She Is Spoke"
What I Learned
Ability
To Alonzo Sage
Max Probee's Villy Goats
A Hundred Years from Now
Uncle Sam to Columbia .
Dakota
"Sky High"
Christmas Greetings .
To .
The Bottled Fairy
The Hill City
A Letter
The Old Home News
Patience
To .
Rosie Lalone .
Reflections .
You Faller
The Abbot's Prayer
De Big Field by de Town
Observations
Nature
Memory
Precedent
To Alpha Claire Skinner .
Nearing Port
Portraiture
Joaquin Miller
Chrees'mas Eve
Sam Walter Foss
The Poet
The Bachelor Girl . " .
Anamoose
How It Happened
To a Violet
To Carrie Walker
Our Village
Attainment
Morning
Revenge
That Man
Joe Bing
After All .
Autumn
An Epistle
To
Rhodes
ILLUSTRATIONS
Home of the wild Rose
Lover's Bower
The River Grand
Night
Send Me the News
The Old Home News
Joaquin Miller
Contents To Part II
Memory and Reflection.
PAGE
Old Friends . . , . ,
II The River Chippewa
Success ......
. 15
Reward of Labor ....
. 18
There's a Gray Stone in the Churchyard .
Ambition . . . . .
The Long Ago , . . . .
. 22,
The Little School ....
On the Shore ....
. 27
The Downtrodden ....
Worth
. 30
The Churchyard ....
Make Me a Man ....
The Spelling Class ....
You Can Laugh About It Later .
. 36
If I Had Known ....
Genius . . . . •
. 39
The Journey .....
The Uplift ....
. 42
Dear Old Spicerville
. 44
Rewarded .....
Thanksgiving ....
. 48
Sometime .....
Somewhere
That Dear Little Mite of Life
Let Us Forget .
Patience 'Twuz April To a Human Skeleton Home Revisited A Song of Winter Flown Away .
What Would You Do?
The Everlasting Process Auld Brig of Ayr .
It Is Well John Hay .
Good Old Days In Boyhood Gratitude Upward
Wait Till the Tide Comes Eaton County, Mich.
Not in Vain Wait
Auld Ayr Enjoyment Christmas Reflections Life at Best O Tell Me, My Love Which Has Won?
Spring .
Pluck
Disappointment Alexander a River
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Fancies and Follies.
How to be Happy io8
Irons in the Fire .
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. 109
New Year Resolutions ....
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