Idylls of the Skillet Fork

by Payson S. Wild

Ralph Fletcher Seymour Chicago

Copyrighted 1918 Ralph Fletcher Seymour

Foreword

Twenty-two of these Bucolics have appeared from time to time during the last three years in “A LINE O’ TYPE OR TWO” of The Chicago Tribune. For permission to reprint them here I am indebted to the genial “Conductor.”

P. S. W.

Chicago, November, 1918.

I The Skillet

[Pg 7]

II The Bootleg Gang at Sims’

[Pg 11]

III The Mocking Bird

[Pg 15]

IV The Siren

[Pg 17]

V Laury at the ’Phone

Four Mile Creek

[Pg 19]

VI The ’Possum Hunt

[Pg 21]

VII Jupiter

[Pg 23]

VIII Laury’s Lullaby

[Pg 25]