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.