The Givers 50
Hullo, Soldier, How's the Boy? 52
Beans 54
Behind the Lines 56
The Disappointed 58
Good-bye, Boys! 60
That's All 61
An American Creed 63

II--IN OTHER KEYS

Youth o' the Year 67
Unfinished 69
Paid in Advance 70
We Rode at Night 71
Now--and Then 73
Understood 74
The Christmas Spirit 75
The Reason 76
The Modern Way 77
Because----! 79
That Smile 80
The Gift of Gifts 81
The Neighbors 82
Uncle Bill's Idea 83
'Lizabeth Ann's Picture 85
The Small Boy Explains 87
The Bold Lover 88
Imagination 89
Willing to Trade 91
The Lonely Child 93
Th' Little Feller's Gone 95
The Fisherman's Son 97
The Dog Confesses 99
Br'er Rabbit in de Bresh Pile 101
When 104

WITH THE COLORS

THE COLORS

It isn't just colors and bunting--
The red and the blue and the white.
It's something heaps better and finer,--
It's the _soul_ of my country _in sight!_

There's a lot of ceremony 'bout the Flag,
Though many half-baked patriots believe
Salutin' it and hangin' it correct
"Is only loyalty upon the sleeve."
But we who work beneath the Flag to-day,
Who'll honor it--and die for it, perhaps--
Get a slightly different view of the old red, white and blue
Than is visioned by th' criticisin' chaps.

It isn't just for decoratin' things,
It isn't just an emblem, clean and bright,
No matter what its "hoist" or what its "fly,"
To us it means our country--wrong or right!
The sobby stuff that some good people spout