ere younger; How fondly mumbling o'er the past Is Memory's toothless h But when his consentwas asked, and his co-operation invited, he wrote characteristically:It is indeed a high compliment w t; Give me cantharids to eat; From air and ocean bring me foods, From all zones and altitudes. As gratefully as delightedly, Your abiding friend, JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.
And it is certainly his greatest monument. ' Carpentering around the arenawasn't a popular job in those days. Ossip Gabrilowitsch wasa guest in the house a good portion of the summer, but had been invalidedthrough severe surgical operations, and for a long time rarely appeared,even at meal-times. They realized that something was required after such anintroduction; that, in fact, they must go within a day or two a
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