Afterwhiles by James Whitcomb Riley (Ninth Thousand, Illustrated), 1890 📜🕰️🏡 Mary Thacher Higginson Title: The Ruling Passion

Title: The Ruling Passion

a quality that Zepeda uses to great effect in "Chicken Farm"

and educator

capturing the essence of rural American life and its simple pleasures

[Signature of Gerald Posner]

Afterwhiles by James Whitcomb Riley (Ninth Thousand, Illustrated), 1890 📜🕰️🏡 Mary Thacher Higginson Title: The Ruling Passion1. Introduction This listing is for a vintage printing of "Afterwhiles" by the renowned "Hoosier Poet" James Whitcomb Riley. This Ninth Thousand edition, published by Bowen Merrill Co. in 1890, offers a collection of poems that celebrates rural Midwestern life and showcases the author's beloved sentimental style. The book features a decorative two tone binding and an illustrated frontispiece. 2. About the Book "Afterwhiles" is a collection of poems by