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jkl
11-24-2009, 12:33 PM
all I can remember is ... Jones had a hobby of stones, he gathered them up by the score and .....
The poem was about a man who collected stones and sorted and pileed them pu around the house. His wife said that the piles would be the death of her.

Thanks jkl

jkl
11-24-2009, 12:34 PM
pilled them up - not pileed them pu. ha ha

jkl

DWolfman
11-25-2009, 09:01 PM
The poem is "Benjamin Jones and his Stones" from a collection called
"LET'S TRAVEL ON - The New Work-Play Books" Book 5 (1939)
By Arthur Irving Gates, Miriam Blanton Huber, Jean Y. Ayer, Celeste Comegys Peardon

Here is some info on it, but it's scanty:
GoogleBooks Result (http://books.google.com/books?id=pk8OAQAAIAAJ&dq=Jones+had+a+hobby+of+stones&q=drop+on+my+nose)

I did find, however that ALIBRIS, the online antique bookseller,
has several copies of it available. If you use their search engine
put in: Let's Travel On Arthur Gates