An Old Sweetheart of Mine

An Old Sweetheart of Mine by James Whitcomb Riley

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Title: An Old Sweetheart of Mine

Author: James Whitcomb Riley

Illustrator: Howard Chandler Christy

Virginia Keep

Release Date: January 16, 2008 [EBook #24331]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE ***

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An Old Sweetheart of Mine

James Whitcomb Riley

Drawings by
Howard Chandler Christy

Decorations by
Virginia Keep

The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Publishers Indianapolis

An Old Sweetheart of Mine

INSCRIBED

To GEORGE C. HITT

The beginning of whose steadfast friendship was marked by the first publication of these verses which now, expanded by writer, honored by publisher and masterfully graced by artist, seem to be a worthier symbol of the author's grateful and affectionate regard for his earliest friend

List of Illustrations

I Frontispiece--An Old Sweetheart of Mine.

II A fair, illusive vision that would vanish into air

III The _then_ of changeless sunny days--The _now_ of shower and shine

IV The o

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