Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber's Note: Dialect has been retained as it appears in the original publication.
THE OLD SOLDIER'S STORY Poems and Prose Sketches JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Indianapolis THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1913, 1914, 1915 James Whitcomb Riley
PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y.
TO GEORGE THOMPSON, ESQ. "Apples ben ripe in my gardayne"