Table Of Contents

Introduction	11
Things We Ought to Know	13
Revising the Bible	14
Beautiful Snow	15
Intensive Gardening	16
Poetry and Weather	17
The Kansas That Was	18
The Warrior's Farewell	19
When Pa Goes Fishin'	22
An Inalienable Right	23
English As She Is Not Spelled	24
Voices of the Night	25
Cadmus and Europa	26
The Melancholy Days	27
Godiva Up to Date	28
The Weather Grouch	29
Small Potatoes	30
Kate Bender Dead Again	31
Striking It Rich	32
When the Worm Turned	34
Damon and Pythias	35
Tell, the Swiss Patriot	36
Down Where They Raise 'Em	38
The Return of the Bustle	39
A Restaurant Tragedy	39
A Western Romance	40
The Limit of Patience	42
The Call of Duty	43
Who Are the Heathen?	44
Out of a Job	45
Modern Robin Hood	46
The Neversweat	47
The Summer Appetite	48
Balak and Baalam	49
Wasted Opportunities	50
Propriety in Dress	52
Joys of Spring	53
When Zekiel Played the Fiddle	54
The Last of Tim	55
When Rover Runned Away	56
A Perverted Invention	58
The Would-Be Tax Dodger	59
Looking on the Bright Side	61
Woes of the Wealthy	62
A Plea for the Teacher	63
Work for the Booster Club	64
The Pessimist's Plaint	65
The Ideal Season	66
The Christmas Fiddle	68
Sister's Summer Hat	70
Exit J. Barleycorn	72
The Moving Season	73
Getting Back to the Farm	74
Fishing Time	76
A Cat-astrophe	77
Downfall of the Speed Fiend	78
No Time to Vote	79
Knocking the Doctor	80
Legislative Superfluity	81
Julius Caesar	82
The Prodigal Son	83
The Baby Sister	84
New Year Resolves	85
The Snorer	86
House Cleaning Time	87
Following Suit	87
Hand-Me-Down Maxims	88
The Summer of Umpity-Steen	90
City Elections	91
Christmas Giving	92
The Calendar and the Girl	94
The Pawpaw	96
The Legislature	97
School Day Memories	98
The Warm Weather Nuisance	99
The National Guard	100
It Was a Church Wedding	101
A Plea for the Mule	102
The Spider and the Fly	103
The Parade Habit	104
The Successful Failure	105
Gardening by Almanac	106
The Call of the Brook	107
Requiescat in Partes	108
Baby Bye--Revised	109
Taking Vacations	110
Hereditary Crime	112
The Assessor	113
When Willie Jined the Band	114
"Nothing in the Paper"	116
Keeping Up the Interest	117
The Reformed Reformer	118
What's In a Name?	119
Everything Is High	120
A Tussle with Grip	121
High Water Time	122
It Isn't Any Snap	123
The Three Fishers	124

 

Verdigris Valley Verse
Albert Stroud
(Coffeyville, Kansas: The Journal Press. 1917)
Pages 9-10

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