CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| ALONE | [ 12] |
| It’s queer how seasons affect us sometimes, | |
| BOARDER’S SOLILOQUY | [ 14] |
| To board or not to board? That is the question, | |
| ECHOES FROM THE SEA | [ 7] |
| Drifting along in my gallant craft, | |
| ESCAPED FROM THE LAW | [ 30] |
| They started out all bright and gay, | |
| GOING, GOING, GONE | [ 17] |
| Where are you going, my dear young man? | |
| HER GENTLEMAN FRIEND | [ 33] |
| He’s tall, handsome; eyes of blue; | |
| I’S OO BOY | [ 34] |
| I hug him closely to my breast, | |
| “IT’S ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE” | [ 13] |
| There are many things in this world | |
| LAWYER TAFFY AND DR. PILL | [ 22] |
| There are two distinguished gentlemen, | |
| LIFE’S REALITY | [ 6] |
| Gather ’round me closely and a story I’ll relate | |
| LITTLE LIFE | [ 24] |
| Little infants, | |
| LONELINESS | [ 16] |
| Loneliness is not a pain, | |
| LOVE AT DAWN | [ 10] |
| The fields are full of flowers, | |
| LOVE WILL FIND THE WAY | [ 9] |
| Though oceans divide, apart they roam, | |
| MY JINGLES | [ 5] |
| These jingles, I present to thee, | |
| MY LADY FAIR | [ 20] |
| My lady loves the poems that are old; | |
| MY WIFE | [ 25] |
| What? You ask me if I’m happy | |
| OUR LAST GOODNIGHT | [ 32] |
| “Goodnight! goodnight!” Our last “goodnight!” | |
| OLD AND NEW | [ 23] |
| The old oaken bucket, | |
| PARTING | [ 36] |
| Tonight we part forever, though it fills my heart with pain; | |
| PLEADING SUITOR | [ 12] |
| Give me the love, the love I crave | |
| ROCKY MOUNTAINS | [ 8] |
| I love to climb these hills unique, | |
| SMALL TOWN HOTEL | [ 18] |
| A bed, a washstand, a lamp and a chair, | |
| SONGS OF LONG AGO | [ 20] |
| Deep in my heart I cherish memories of the past, | |
| THAT’S MY BEAU | [ 21] |
| A great big fellow, | |
| THAT’S MY PA | [ 29] |
| Always stern, | |
| THAT’S MY WIFE | [ 28] |
| Rich brown hair, | |
| THE ACTOR’S FAREWELL | [ 27] |
| The actor stood with his only love, | |
| THE SCHOOL HOUSE ON THE PLAIN | [ 26] |
| ’Tis not far from the foothills, | |
| THE SEA OF LIFE | [ 19] |
| Smoothly we sail o’er life’s mighty sea, | |
| THE TICKING OF THE CLOCK | [ 15] |
| Far from friends and comrades, | |
| THE WILD AND WOOLLY WEST | [ 31] |
| You call us wild—just tell me why; | |
| ’TWAS NOT TO BE | [ 35] |
| I’ve been thinking of the many things | |
| TRUTH | [ 36] |
| If in life you would succeed, | |
| WHO? | [ 17] |
| Who lights the stars that twinkle at night? | |
| WHO WAS THE FOOL? | [ 11] |
| A fool there was, so the story goes, |
Frank J. Medina