isa-normaladvance-1913-00251

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE251f,«i \ l n^ 0 1©f%Tom Jones come home the other day, the first time fer awhile,Hes wandered many a year away and travelled many a mile I met him at the station, and when he left the train,I hurried up to Avelcome him to his old home again.Hoav old and grizzled he has groAved, yit healthy-like and sound!I slapped him on the shoulder and when hed turned around,He reached his brawny hand to me and hollered: Howdy, Dick!Remember how Ave used to fish way doAvn on Briley Crik?Yes sir, says he, as home Ave rode, I felt I couldnt stayAway from old Clay County land another lonesome day I got a drink from old Eel river boyhoods thirst to slack,And the proverb says whereer you go, youll be a comin back,And so IVe come,—Avhats that you ask? You bet Ive come to stay,Until I leave ferever fer the fairer land than day I guess youd say Im homesick, Avell, Ill own that I am sickTo git to go a-fishin once again on Briley Crik.Remember hoAv in summer time when the Wind Avas in the South,An grandpad say hoAv it would Woav the bait in the fishs mouth,Then how wed dig the earthworms up an fill the old tin can,An git the tackle ready Avi the help o the hired man An Ma wTould have the dinner pail chuck full o things to eat,—Biled eggs, an beans an buttered bread an hunks o roasted meatWith lots o salt, fer Ave knowed where wild onions sprouted thick,An Ave always eat our dinners there, on the banks o Briley Crik.Away we went wi lines an bait,—we had no poles o cane,Apast old Chambers schoolhouse an doAvn the narry lane,Aseein an a-hearin o the country sights an sounds,So filled wi joy o livin our hallooins knowed no bounds,Until we turned the corner, an seen so lone an still,The meetin house o Friendly Grove a-shinin on the hill,With the tombstones o the graveyard a-clustered all too thick,—Then Ave walked awhile in silence as we went toward Briley Crik.
Source:	http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/isuarchive/id/34696
Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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