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From Rude Rural Rhymes by Bob Adams, New York: The Macmillan Company; 1925; pp. 11-14.
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CONTENTS
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In Praise of Plumbing
17
Being a Boy
19
Forty Plus
21
The Water’s Fine
23
The Heritage
25
A Pome of Pants and Patches
27
A Song of the Sock
29
The Bald Bard and the Modern Maiden
31
Eating
33
Feet
35
Culture
37
Corn
41
God’s Planter
43
The Ad on the Fence
45
The Rooster
47
A Seed-Time Song
49
Apples
50
The County Fair
52
Fair Time
54
The Soil
56
Hairy Vetch
58
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Arbor Day
60
He Feeds us All
62
Bill Quits
63
Biddy Protests
65
So, Bossy, So
67
Garlic
69
Peaches or Pines
70
Catalog Time
72
Name Your Farm
74
Johnny Appleseed
76
Fast Time
78
Man Needs them Still
80
Tested Herd
82
Feeding Father
85
Nobody Loves a Landlord
87
Irrigate your Eden
89
Truth and Tombstones
91
The Household Budget
93
Hair Tonic
95
Coffee
97
Cheese
99
Sidewalks
101
House Cleaning
103
Washing Dishes
105
Plumbing
107
Swat them Now
109
Advice to Gardeners
111
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Old King Coal
115
Coal Substitutes
117
Winter Woes
119
Coal Strikes
121
Evolution
125
Creation
127
An Easter Rhyme
129
Trespass
131
Hope
133
Our Successors
135
Fate
137
Faces
139
Consolidation
141
The Knocker and the Worker
143
The Descent of Man
145
Advice to Maidens
147
The Standing Broad Grin
149
Do it Now
151
Thanksgiving
153
Stagnant Waters
155
A Rural Book
157
The Vest comes Back
161
Winter Evenings
163
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Dailies And Weeklies
165
Cartoons
167
Anti-Fat
169
Show Your Colors
171
The Community Newspaper
173
The Melancholy Days
174
A Rude Rural Valentine
176
Sweet Spring
178
The Apple Cure
180
Keep the Home Flowers Blooming
182
The New Year’s Sun
184
It Pays to Advertise
186
Your Editor Speaks
188
Dinner’s Ready
190
Here Comes the Bride
192
Morpheus and Me
194
Mother Earth
196
Ladies First?
198
Razors
200
The Fever Thermometer
202
Every Day in Every Way
204
Suspense
206
Operated
208
Wills
210
Nobody Loves the Dentist
212
Odes To Order
214
A Shirtsleeve Song
216
The Graduates
218