E-text prepared by Al Haines

 

 

 The Umpire 

 

 RIPPLING RHYMES 

 

 To Suit The Times All Sorts of Themes Embracin'  Some Gay Some Sad Some not so Bad 

 AS WRITTEN BY 

 

 

 Chicago A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1913 

 

 Copyright A. C. McClurg & Co. 1913 Published October, 1913 Copyrighted in Great Britain 

 

 For permission to use copyright prose poems in this book thanks are extended to the editors and publishers of Harper's Magazine, Harper's Weekly, The Ladies' Home Journal, System, The Magazine of Business, The Popular Magazine, Collier's Weekly, The Smart Set Magazine, The American Magazine and Lippincott's Magazine. 

 

 To GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS 

 Who teaches poets how to win. And helps to make the glad world grin, And sticks to friends through thick and thin. 

 

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