A LITTLE BOOK
OF
HOOSIER VERSE
ByO. W. COXEN
COPYRIGHT, 1922
BY
OMAR W. COXEN
HAMMOND PRESS
W. D. CONKEY COMPANY
CHICAGO
CONTENTS
- Page
- The Days That Used to Be 5
- The Old Beech Tree 8
- Thinking of the Past 10
- Those Old Carpet Slippers 12
- Mother's Punkin Pies 14
- A Cup of Sassafras 16
- My Little Boy Blue 18
- Treasures 19
- Tom and Bill and Joe 21
- Microbes 23
- The Music of the Old Village Bells 25
- Just a Dream of Nellie 27
- The Valley of Sunshine and Dreams 29
- When the Leaves Turn from Green to Red and Gold 30
- My Old Violin 32
- Take Care, Take Care 33
- Some Folks are Hard to Satisfy 35
- Snapper at the End 37
- Chasing a Butterfly 38
- Stop! Look! Listen! 39
- The Drummer's Dream 40
- To Our Flag 42
- Indiana 43
- The Bigger, Better Town 45
- Be a Booster 48
- Where the Big Round Dollars Grow 50
- You Can't Lay By a Single Red Cent 51
- The Famous Golden Rule 53
- Keep Smiling 56
- The Main Kazabo 58
- Even As You and I 60
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- When I Worked on the Team 61
- The Night That I Made Hay 63
- Case of Blues 65
- The Dark and Rainy Day 66
- Opportunity Knocks 67
- To the Politician 68
- I'm from the U. S. A. 69
- Cheer Up 70
- The Wise Guy 71
- The College Youth 72
- Peculiar Brown 73
- Here and Hereafter 74
- War Time Rhymes 77
- Preparedness 79
- Soak the Kaiser 80
- The Man Under Thirty-one 82
- That Far Off Land of France 84
- Halt the Hun 87
- They're Coming, Bill 89
- When the Boys Come Home Again 91
- The Kaiser 92
- Safe Over Sea 94
- Better Buy a Bond 96
- The Old Y. M. C. A. 98
- When the Boys Come 100
- The Armistice Is Signed 101
- What Shall We Do with Bill? 103
- The Limited Service Man 105
- P. D. Q. 107
- That Was the Day 109
- You Must Be an American 111
- The Kid Is Home Again 113
- Will They Be Our Heroes Then 115
