SONGS OF THE STREETS
AND BYWAYS
Songs of the Streets
and Byways
By William Herschell
Illustrated With Photographs
Indianapolis
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Publishers
Copyright, 1915
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
To a Comrade Asleep
MY FATHER
This little volume is
affectionately dedicated
AND NOW IT IS REVEALED UNTO YOU-
Friends, whom the author esteems as genuine, said: "Why don't you put them into a book?"
Acquaintances added a handclasp to their declarations that they liked my verses because they were "so human."
A little boy telephoned on occasional Saturday evenings and said: "I liked today's best of all."
And I like some of them myself.
Out of it all has grown this simple volume composed of verses printed in The Indianapolis News under the captions of "Songs of the City Streets" and "Ballads of the Byways."
The Author
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- THE EXILES1
- TWO MEN OF THE ROAD 5
- TIMOTHY MACKESSY, COP NUMBER ONE 8
- THE SHOW PARADE 11
- MATRIMONY A LA CARTE 14
- THE DOWN-TRAIN TO MADISON 17
- THE OLD RED PUMP ON THE CORNER 21
- "WISH YOU WAS HERE" 24
- THE HOUSE OF WHERE 28
- HIS FIRST POCKETS 31
- WHEN "20" COMES INTO THE YARDS 34
- UP ALONG THE RIVER 37
- HOLLYHOCKS 41
- U-M--M! UM-M-M! PASS 'EM TO ME! 45
- THE OLD GREEN SASH 47
- FETCHING HOME THE COWS 49
- SCHOOL'S OUT AT SHORTRIDGE 53
- THE LAMENT OF THE LONESOME GRAY57
- "GIT-EP!" 61
- THE CIRCUS WAGON'S RUMBLE 64
- THE STORY OF THE GAME68
- THE URCHIN AND THE LILY 72
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- LONGINGS AND LIMITATIONS 75
- THE VOCALIZING VULCANS 79
- THE MUDDLED MODES 83
- MOTHER'S DAY88
- HOWDY, MISTAH PUNKIN!92
- A CREEKSIDE COMEDY 95
- SANTA CLAUS DAYS 98
- THANKSGIVIN' PUNKIN PIE 101
- THE WONDERFUL LAND OF SEE 103
- LITTLE LADY 'PRINKLECAN 106
- WHEN YOU'VE BEEN AWAY A WHILE 109
- THE MOP MARYS 113
- THE OLD HIGH CHAIR116
- GOOD OLD MISTER BOBSLED 120
- THE HANDICAP OF RICHES 122
- AN EARLY AUTUMN LULLABY 124
- THE PLUGGER 126
- AUTUMN ON THE TOWPATH 128
- IN THE BACK-LOT LEAGUE 132
- THAT FELLOW 135
- THE OLD TRACK GANG138
- THE WATER CURE 143
- THE GIRLS OF FIVE-MINUTES-TO-EIGHT 147
