James Whitcomb Riley's Complete Works, Including Poems and Prose Sketches Volume 5 (Paperback)

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: ...case, and claimed she'd haf to die, --I jes' was joggin' by the place, and heerd her dorter cry, And stops and calls her to the fence; and I-says-I, "Let me Send Sifers--bet you fifteen cents he'll k-yore her " "Well," says she, "Light out " she says: And, lipp-tee-cut, I loped in town, and rid 'Bout two hours more to find him, but I kussed him when I didl DOC SIFERS 1275 He was down at the Gunsmith Shop a-stuffin' birds Says he, "My sulky's broke." Says I, "You hop right on and ride with me " I got him there.--"Well, Aunty, ten days k'yores you," Sifers said, "But what's yer idy livin' when yer jes' as good as dead?" And there's Dave Banks--jes' back from war without a scratch--one day Got ketched up in a sickle-bar, a reaper runaway.--His shoulders, arms, and hands and legs jes' sawed in strips And Jake Dunn starts fer Sifers--feller begs to shoot him fer God-sake. Doc, 'course, was gone, but he had penned the notice, "At Big Bear--Be back to-morry; Gone to 'tend the Bee Convention there." But Jake, he tracked him--rid and rode the whole endurin' night And 'bout the time the roosters crowed they both hove into sight. Doc had to ampitate, but 'greed to save Dave's arms, and swore He could 'a' saved his legs ef he'd b'en there the day 1276 DOC SIFERS Like when his wife's own mother died 'fore Sifers could be found, And all the neighbers fer and wide a' all jes' chasin' round;Tel finally--I had to laugh--it's jes' like Doc, you know, --Was learnin' fer to telegraph, down at the old deepo. But all they're faultin' Sifers fer, there's none of 'em kin say He's biggoty, er keerless, er not posted any way; He ain't built on the common plan of doctors nowadays, He's jes' a great, big, ...