...mehow out of focus; yet it seems I hear the flute and lyre of the ceramic players. I dreamed I talked with Cyprus-born... No, that is a poor li... ...luck? When you write a play, isn’t it luck, lucky weather, luck with your players, luck with your attendance, the right kind of royalty attending at... ...t my own defeat, a shrew SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 381 beside a shrew, players nodding at my marital bewilderment, I, the drunkard drunk on illus... ... smoked on the long watches. It settles the blood and calms the mind. The Indians...” “We know about the Indians,” Jonson said. “Just remember, we’r... ...he town of San José; I hear him telling about the treachery of the Tarawa Indians; his terrible thirst when his ship ran out of water at sea; he is ... ... wish to write about my mother, about my village of New Salem, my home in Springfield with its maple trees. I see the sunlight in my office windows ... ... stove. Weather meant al- most nothing to my family; we lived exactly like Indians in our 3-sided cabin. We ate like Indians—when we could. At times ... ... about $3,000 or $4,000, good for a town that already had eleven lawyers. Springfield, in those days, offered better legal services than side- walks.... ...e, described, underlined, the devious trickeries of the whites. Billy, my Springfield barber, had tales to tell. I have heard them as he shaved me o...

...e-races of long ago at Clary’s Grove, Of what Abe Lincoln said One time at Springfield. Hod Putt HERE I lie close to the grave Of Old Bill Piersol, Wh... ...lie close to the grave Of Old Bill Piersol, Who grew rich trading with the Indians, and who Afterwards took the Bankrupt Law And emerged from it riche... ... pillow? Dora Williams WHEN Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me I went to Springfield. There I met a lush, Whose father just deceased left him a fort... ..., In spite of attacks of newspapers like the Clarion; A regular visitor at Springfield When the Legislature was in session To prevent raids upon the r... ...ghter Flossie, she, Returning from her wandering with a troop Of strolling players, walked the village streets, 126 Spoon River Anthology Her bracele...

...- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed that year. My grandfather, also named Noah, was t... ... least one of these hamlets lived underground for pro- tection against the Indians. The country abounded in game, such as deer and antelope, with abun... ...own called San Patricio, but the inhabitants had all been massacred by the Indians, or driven away. San Antonio was about equally divided in populatio... ...mainder the pay of privates. This would not secure a band leader, nor good players on certain instruments. In gar- rison there are various ways of kee... ...oirs eye was regaled, on every block near the water front, by the sight of players at faro. Often broken places were found in the street, large enough... ...m into squads and superintended their drill. When they were ready to go to Springfield I went with them and re- mained there until they were assigned ... ...f the 11th Illinois volunteer infantry. My duties, I thought, had ended at Springfield, and I was prepared to start home by the evening train, leaving... ... the State were about closed. Brigadier-General John Pope was stationed at Springfield, as United States mustering officer, all the time I was in the ...