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The ripest peach is highest on the tree

James Whitcomb Riley

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James Whitcomb Riley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1849
Born: October 7
Died: 1916
Died: July 22
Poet
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Greenfield
Indiana
Benjamin P. Johnson of Boone
Jay Whit
Uncle Sidney
James Withcomb Riley
Peach
Peaches
Fruit
Highest
Tree

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I don't know how to tell it--but ef such a thing could be As the angels wantin' boardin', and they'd call around on me-- I'd want to 'ccommodate 'em--all the whole-in-durin' flock-- When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
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