The title piece is the rambling, never-quite-arriving anecdote Riley told at a New England Society banquet in New York, a performance built on digression. Around it sit dialect verses such as “Somep’n Common-Like,” a tribute to the historian John Clark Ridpath, sonnets, and short prose sketches from Indiana life.
A good sampler of the platform humour and homespun verse that made Riley the most popular American poet of his day. Download the free EPUB.