Biirdett's Serio-Comic Recitations and Readings. 



Being a new collection of humorous, dramatic, serious, and dialect 

 Recitals in prose and poetry, adapted and arranged for public or parlor 

 entertainments. 



CONTENTS. 



An Irish Letter 



An Oration on Spunk 



Arkansaw Traveller 



Aux Italiens 



Ballad of Cassandra Brown, 

 The 



Battle of Limerick, The 



''Bay Billy" 



Beau 



Bill Brown (from Cohoes) - . . 



Bill Mason's Bride 



Blind Mother, The 



Brother Bill 



Brother Gardner on Liars . . . 



Caoch the Piper 



Chess Board, The 



Clerical Wit 



Cut Behind 



Death of the Old Squire, Tlie 



Der Mule Shtood on der 

 Steamboad Deck 



Dot Baby off Mine 



Dutchman's Family, The 



Engineers Making Love 



Fashionable School-Girl 



For Life and Death 



Hard Witness, A 



Hezekiah Bedott 



His Son Jim's Bay Mare 



Home Again 



Horse, The. (A Boy's Com- 

 position) 



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How the Old Horse Won the 

 Bet 



In der Shweed Long Ago 



Irish Philosopher, The 



Jew and the Jewels, The 



Jiners, The 



Knight's Toast, The 



Language of the Rail, The.. 



Mary's Little Lamb 



Me and My Dog 



Modern Education 



Mr. Molony's Account of the 

 Ball 



Mule, The 



New Church Organ, The 



* ' Nebuchadnezzar " 



''Ole Marster's'' Christmas, 

 The 



Pat's Bondsman 



Postilion of Nagold, The 



Regret 



Religious Card Player, The . . 



Royal Bumper Degree, The. 



Sergeant's Story, The 



' ' Solomonism "... 



Spartacus with Modern Im- 

 provements 



TelephT)nic Conversation, A- 



Weather Fiend, The 



Widder, The 



Widow Bedott's Poetry, The 



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