Burdett's Dramatic Recitations and Readings. 



Compiled and arranged for Reading, Speaking, Recitations and Elecutionary 

 exercises. 



CONTENTS. 

 Baron's Last Banquet, The. 'Forgive,— No, Never. 



Benediction, The 



Boat-Race, The. 



Death. 



Death-bed of Benedict Ar- 

 nold. 



Death of the Drunkard 

 The. 



Death of King John. 



Death of Murat. 



|3eath of the Old Squire, 

 The. 



Death of the Reveller,The. 



Dream of Eugene Aram, 

 The. 



Dying Hebrew, The. 



Education. 



Evangelist, The. 



Fearless DeCourcy, The. 



Flight for Life, The. 



Forgotten Actor, The. 

 Galley-Slave. The. 

 Game Knut Played, The. 

 Iv.^n, The Czar. 

 Jean Goello's Yarn. 

 King Robert of Sicily. 

 Last Banquet, The. 

 Legend of the Church of 



Los Angeles, A. 

 Legend of a Veil. 

 Leper, The. 

 Little Ned. 

 " Lynch for Lynch." 

 Mary Queen of Scots. 

 Marseillaise at Sebastopol, 



The. 

 Mask and Domino. 

 Night Watch, The. 

 Ode to Eloquence. 



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O Maria, Reg^na Misericor- 

 diae. 



One of King Charles' Mad- 

 cap Men. 



Painter of Florence, The. 



Parrhasius. 



Portrait, The. 



Ramon. 



Rescue, The. 



Richelieu ; or, the Con- 

 spiracy. 



Sea Captain's Story, The. 



Spanish Page, The. 



Three Words (The), Ar- 

 nold, the Traitor. 



Tiger Bay. 



Told at the Falcon. 



Two Loves and a Life. 



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BURDETT'S NEGRO DIALECT RECITATIONS AND BDIIORO&S READINGS. 



Containing the latest and best hints of modem Negro Ministrelsy, being by far 

 the most perfect book of its kind ever published. 



CONTE NTS. 



An Examination in History, 

 Apples : an Original Negro 



Lecture. 

 Bad Churchman, A. 

 Blind Ned. 

 Brjther Anderson. 

 Brother Gardner and Judge 



Cadaver. 

 Brother Gardner on Music. 

 Brudder Bones's Love 



Scrape. 

 Brudder Plato Johnson's 



Sermon. 

 " Business " in Mississippi. 

 Caesar Rowan. 

 Christmas Baby, The. 

 Christmas Night in the 



Quarters, 

 Colored Preacher's Relig- 

 ious Experience, A. 

 Darky Bootblack, The. 

 Darky Preacher, The. 

 Darky's Story, The. 

 De Cake Walk. 

 Devil's Ride, The, 

 First Banjo, The. 

 Half-Way Doings. 

 How Persimmons 



Cah ob de Baby, 



Bound in illuminated paper cover. 



Kentucky Philosophy 

 Mahsr John. 



Marcellino's Conversion. 

 Marriage a Mighty Serious 



Thing. 

 Momma Phoebe. 

 Negro Aphorisms. 



Nigger Made Happy." 

 " No Party To-Night." 

 Old Daddy Turner. 

 Old Hostler's Experience, 



The. 



Ole Man's" Lament, The. 

 Old Sambo Puzzled. 

 Old Si Pilots a 



Hunt. 



Took 



Ship of Faith, The. 



Solium Fac', A. 



Sunday Fishin'. 



Teco Brag's Lecture. 



Ter'ble 'Sperience, A. 



Terpsichore in the Flat 

 Creek Quarters. 



Three Wishes, 1 he. 



Uncle Anderson on Pros- 

 perity. 



Uncle Billy and the Civil 

 Rights Bill. 



Uncle Eph Kimble's Mis- 



j take. 

 Possum Uncle Gabe's White Folks. 



lUr.cle Ike's Roosters. 



Parson Snow's Broad Hint.jUncle Joel. 



Pine Town Darky D ebating Uncle Ned's Defence. 



Society. The. lUncle Pete and Mars^ 



Plar ration Song, A. | George. 



Precepts at Parting. Uncle Reuben's Baptism. 



Professor Barbour's E xperi- Vv ar of Races, The. 



ment. I" Whar's de Kerridge ? " 



Rev. Plato Johnson Visits What's a Dolla to a Man 



New York, The. 

 Rev. Uncle Jim's Sermon, 



The. 

 Sambo's Dilemjna. 

 ISam's Feast. 



wid a Family 

 What Troubled the Nigger. 

 Wounded in the Corners. 



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