And there's granddad's picture, lookin' just as I remember him--only he wan't quite so much of a frozen wax image as he's painted there.

I'm goin' to hang it where it always hung, over the mantelpiece, next to the lookin' glass.
"Great land of love, boys!" he went on, "you fellers don't know what this means to me.

Many and many's the time I've had this old house and this old room in my mind.

I've seen 'em aboard ship in a howlin' gale off the Horn.

I've seen 'em down in Surinam of a hot night, when there wan't a breath scurcely and the Caribs went around dressed in a handkerchief and a paper cigar, and it made you wish you could.