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The Book of Joyous Children

by James Whitcomb Riley

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2The Book of Joyous Children
  3. 3An Impromptu Fairy-Tale
  4. 4Dream-March
  5. 5Elmer Brown
  6. 6No Boy Knows
  7. 7When We First Played “Show”
  8. 8A Diverted Tragedy
  9. 9The Rambo-Tree
  10. 10Find the Favorite
  11. 11The Boy Patriot
  12. 12Extremes
  13. 13Intellectual Limitations
  14. 14A Masque of the Seasons
  15. 15Thomas the Pretender
  16. 16Little Dick and the Clock
  17. 17Fool-Youngens
  18. 18The Katydids
  19. 19Billy and His Drum
  20. 20The Noble Old Elm
  21. 21The Penalty of Genius
  22. 22Evensong
  23. 23“Igo and Ago”
  24. 24The Little Lady
  25. 25“Company Manners”
  26. 26In Fervent Praise of Picnics
  27. 27The Good, Old-Fashioned People
  28. 28The Best Times — “Hik-Tee-Dik!”
  29. 29A Christmas Memory
  30. 30“Old Bob White”
  31. 31Old Bob White
  32. 32A Session With Uncle Sidney
  33. 33A Dubious “Old Kriss”
  34. 34A Song of Singing
  35. 35The Jaybird
  36. 36A Bear Family
  37. 37Some Songs After Master Singers
  38. 38Old Man Whiskery-Whee-Kum-Wheeze
  39. 39Little-Girl-Two-Little-Girls
  40. 40A Gustatory Achievement
  41. 41Climatic Sorcery
  42. 42A Parent Reprimanded
  43. 43The Treasure of the Wise Man

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