Riley auctor optime veniens decennio 190 factus est. Sua poemata pueris destinata in librum conlecta est, illustrationibus ab Howardo Chandler Christyadumbratis; liber, nomine Rhymes of Childhood ('Rimae pueritiae'), populo fuit gratissimus, et milliones exemplorum venitae sunt.
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