BY

EL. C: WARD, LL.B.

IT BEING

A Thousand Gems of Prose and Poetry

BY

A THOUSAND AUTHORS

NEW YORK

WM. L. ALLISON COMPANY

1899

COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY E. L. C. WARD.

GIFT OF

A. F. Morrison,

10 VIHU

The following poems of James Whitcomb Riley are copyrighted by, and published with the consent of, Bowen Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind. :

Long afore he knowed,. "PIPES O'PAN."