^ g.3:S?->lS-^g;^^^J'f^«i^'^^?g<:^^S-£:; PS e7o4- GrS (913 PS 2704.GTl9'ir"'"' "'"'"' .Goodbye Jim. 3 1924 022 035 202 Cornell University Library The original of tiiis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924022035202 GOOD-BYE, JIM BOOKS BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Neghborly Poems Sketches in Prose Afterwhiles Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury Rhymes of Childhood The Flying Islands of the Night Green Fields and Running Brookc Armazindy A Child-World Home-Folks His Pa's Romance Morning Poems Here at Home The Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers The Book of Joyous Children Riley Child-Rhymes Riley Love-Lyrics Riley Farm-Rhymes Riley Songs o' Cheer Riley Songs of Summer Riley Songs of Home A Summer's Day Down Around the River When the Frost is on the Funkin Old Fashioned Roses English Edition The Golden Year English Edition An Old Sweetheart of Mine Out to Old Aunt Mary's Home Again with Me The Girl I Loved When She was About Sixteen Riley Roses While the Heart Beats Young The Raggedy Man Little Orphant Annie The Boy Lives on our Farm Ef you don't Watch Out Riley Child-Verse The Runaway Boy A Defective Santa Claus The Boys of the Old Glee Club Old School Day Romances The Lockerbie Book of Riley Verse Greenfield Edition. 12 volume's. GOOD-BYE, JIM By JAMES ^VHITCOMB RILEY Illustrated hy HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY Decorations by BERTHA STUART THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS Co^yriglt 1893, 1913 James vvnitcomh Riley PS /^I3 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Guessed ne a tackle ner tnree years more Wnen tne army broke out Ana likin mm all to msse r Take keer or yourse r But ■wnen Cap. Biggler he -writ back "Xell Jim Good-bye Jim lowed at ne d bad sicn luck aiore Tbe old man -wound up a letter to bim Tuk tbe papers, tbe old man did Jim, a lieutenant and one arm gone A.nd tbe old man, bendin over bim DEDICATION To Clint. Hamilton GOOD-BYE, JIM Old man never nao. muck to say — Ceptm to Jim, — Ana Jim was the wilclest boy lie liad — Ana tne old man jes ■wrapped up m nim ! Never neerd him speak out once Er twice m my life, — ana first time -was xV^ hen the army oroke out, ana Jim he "went. The. ola man hackin him, fer three months ; And all at I neerd tne old man say ^iVas, jes as "we turned to start away,- " ^V^ell, good-bye, Jim : Take keer of yourse r! Peared-like, he -was more satisried Jes lookin at Jim Ana liKin nim all to nisse f-like, see ? — Cause ne "was jes wrapped up m nim! / And over arid over I mind the day Tne old man come and stood round m tne -way nV nile -we -was drillin , a-^vatcnin Jim — .Ajid doAVTi at the deepot a-heerin nixn say, " \Vell, gooa-oye, Jim: Take keer of yourse f ! Never was notliin' atout tlie farm Distingisked Jim ; Neignoors all ust to wonder "wliy L ne old man peared "wrapped up in liim ; But ^vhen Cap. Biggler ne -writ back At Jim. -was tne bravest boy we nao. In tne -wnole aem rigiment, -wnite er black. And nis Tigntm' good as nis rarmin bad — At ne nad led, ^witn a bullet clean Bored tnrougn nis tnign, and carried tne flag Tnrougn tne oloodiest battle you ever seen, — The old man "wound up a letter to him At Cap. read to us, at said : " Tell Jim Good-Dye, A.nd take keer or hisse t. ^.^,...!0.-t.iu,..-n7rj Jim come nome jes long enough Xo take tne -wnim 'At lied like to go tack in tlie calvery — And tke old man jes' •wrappea up in nim! Jim lo-wed at lie d had sich luck afore, Cjuessed ne d tackle ner tnree years more. And tne old man give nim a colt he d raised. And follered him over to Camp Ben AiVade, Ana laid around fer a "week er so, W' atcnin Jim on dress-parade — Xel Tinally ne rid a-way. And last lie lieerd was tlie old man say, — " Well, good-Dye, Jim : Take keer ox yourse x ! Xuk tne papers, the old man did, A-watcnin rer Jim — Fully Delievin ne d make nis mark Some "way — ^jes Avrapped up m him ! ■ And many a time tne -word u d come At stirred nim up like the tap or a drum — At PetersDurg, rer instunce, -wnere Jim rid rignt into tneir cannons tnere. And tuk em, and p mted em t otner -way. And socked it nome to the toys in gray. As tney scooted ler timber, and on and on — J im a lieutenant and one arm gone. Ana tne ola man s ■words m liis mmd all day,- " >Vell, good-Dye, Jim : Take keer of yourse r ! "\. i •..^■'...i y Xhink. of a private, new, perhaps, Vve 11 say like Jim, At s clumD clean up to tne snoulaer-straps — And tne old. man jes ■wrapped up in nim ! Xhink of him, — witn. the "war plum through. And the glorious old Red-White-and-Blue A-laughin the ne^ws down over Jim, And the old man, hendm over him — Tne surgeon turnm away ■with tears At naa n t leakea fer years ana years. As the hand or the dym boy clung to His rather s, the old voice in his ears, — " AiVell, good-bye, Jim : lake keer of yourse'f ! " THE END