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Title: Mitch Miller

Author: Edgar Lee Masters

Illustrator: John Sloan

Release Date: June 23, 2007 [EBook #21910]

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MITCH MILLER

BY
EDGAR LEE MASTERS

Author Of
STARVED ROCK, SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY, ETC., ETC.

With Illustrations By
JOHN SLOAN

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1920

All rights reserved

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COPYRIGHT, 1920, By EDGAR LEE MASTERS.

Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1920.

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.

Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

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To My Little Daughters
MADELINE AND MARCIA

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MITCH MILLER

[Illustration: Mitch Miller]

Supposin' you was lyin' in a room and was asleep or pretty near asleep;
and bein' asleep you could hear people talkin' but it didn't mean
nothin' to you--just talk; and you kind of knew things was goin' on
around you, but still you was way off in your sleep and belonged to
yourself as a sleeper, and what was goin' on didn't make no difference
to you; and really, supposin' you was tryin' to get back into deeper
sleep before you heard these things. And then, supposin' now and then as
your eyes rolled back into your head while sleepin' you saw through the
lids--not tryin' to look, but your eyes just saw as they rolled past the
open place between the lids--and you saw squares of light and dark, or
maybe roundish blurs. And then supposin' sometimes you heard a noise,
and as it turned out it was somebody goin' in and out of the room, or
somebody closin' or openin' a door. And supposin' these here people were
not tip-toein' exactly, but were kind of watchin' and laughin' a little
maybe to see what you would do when you woke up. And finally one of your
eyes kind of opened and you saw you