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Meredith Nicholson. The Hoosiers
The Hoosiers
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. INDIANA AND HER PEOPLE
CHAPTER II. THE RURAL TYPE AND THE DIALECT
CHAPTER III. BRINGERS OF THE LIGHT
CHAPTER IV. AN EXPERIMENT IN SOCIALISM
CHAPTER V. THE HOOSIER INTERPRETED
I. Edward Eggleston
II. James Whitcomb Riley
CHAPTER VI. CRAWFORDSVILLE
I. General Lew Wallace
II. Maurice Thompson
III. Mary H. Krout—Caroline V. Krout
CHAPTER VII “OF MAKING MANY BOOKS THERE IS NO END”
I. Fiction
II. History and Politics
III. Miscellaneous
CHAPTER VIII. AN INDIANA CHOIR
I. Early Writers
II. Forceythe Willson
III. Later Poets
INDEX
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Meredith Nicholson
Published by Good Press, 2022
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“He held his fiddle against his breast—perhaps out of affection—and his bow in the middle, and like a cart-whip; things enabling him, however, the more effectually to flog his instrument when rebellious: and the afflicted creature would scream right out in agony! Indeed, his Scremonah bore marks of premature old age—its fingerboard being indented with little pits, and its stomach was frightfully incrusted with rosin and other gummy things, till it looked as dark and careworn as Methuselah! Dan was, truly, no niggard of ‘rosum,’ for he ‘greased’ as he termed it, between his tunes every time! and then, at his first few vigorous jerks, fell a shower of dust on the agitated bosom of his instrument, calling out in vain for mercy under the cruel punishment.”[14]
James Whitcomb Riley corroborates the impression of earlier writers in a characteristic poem, “My Fiddle:”[15]—
