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
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BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
TO
GEORGE THOMPSON, ESQ.
"Apples ben ripe in my gardayne"