RUPERT HUGHES

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

In A Little Town Copyright, 1917, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published March, 1917

to
Frederick Atherton Duneka
as an i-o-u of
heartfelt esteem

CONTENTS

PAGE
Don't You Care![1]
Pop[42]
Baby Talk[73]
The Mouth of the Gift Horse[106]
The Old Folks at Home[141]
And This Is Marriage[173]
The Man That Might Have Been[191]
The Happiest Man in Ioway[222]
Prayers[224]
Pain[232]
The Beauty and the Fool[262]
The Ghostly Counselors[267]
Daughters of Shiloh[285]
"A" as in "Father"[356]

FOREWORD

There are two immortal imbecilities that I have no patience for.