BLACK EAGLE RETURNS TO ST. JOE  

  MY LIGHT WITH YOURS  

  THE BLIND  

  "I PAY MY DEBT FOR LAFAYETTE AND ROCHAMBEAU"        

  CHRISTMAS AT INDIAN POINT  

  WIDOW LA RUE  

  DR. SCUDDER'S CLINICAL LECTURE  

  FRIAR YVES  

  THE EIGHTH CRUSADE  

  THE BISHOP'S DREAM OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE  

  NEANDERTHAL  

  THE END OF THE SEARCH  

  BOTANICAL GARDENS  

  

  

       TO WILLIAM MARION REEDY     

       It would have been fitting had I dedicated Spoon River Anthology to you. Considerations of an intimate nature, not to mention a literary encouragement which was before yours, crowded you from the page. Yet you know that it was you who pressed upon my attention in June, 1909, the Greek Anthology. It was from contemplation of its epitaphs that my hand unconsciously strayed to the sketches of "Hod Putt," "Serepta The Scold"       ("Serepta Mason" in the book), "Amanda Barker" ("Amanda" in the book),       "Ollie McGee" and "The Unknown," the first written and the first 

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