Excelsior Recitations and Readings. 



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 Designed and Arrauged L/ Public aud Parlor Kecitation and Readiog. 



Barhclor's Dream, Tlie. 

 Before and Alter Taking. 

 Roy's Essay on Girls, A. 

 Bonier Funeral, A. 

 Brother Bill, 



CONTENTS. 



Froward Duster, The. 

 Grannie's Picture. 

 iHe Understood It. 

 iHorse or Husband ? 

 iHjw We Fou'Mit the Fire, 



Brother Gardner ou Liars. In Der Shweed Long Ago. 

 Cane-Bottoraed Chair. Intensely Utter. 



Countryman at trie Show, Inventor's Wile, The. 



The. I Irrepressible Yankee, Th 



Clown's Baby, The. |Jim s Kid.^. 



Cow, The. A Boy's Com- Little Men and I. 

 position. Lost Grave, The. 



De Cake Walk. Marriage Tour, A. 



Death-Bed of Benedict Marry's Lamb. 



Arnold. Miner's Protege, The. 



Drummer's Bride, The. Modern Sermon, A. 

 iMusiG Grinders, The. 

 Ninety-eight. 

 No. oCoilect St 



Engineers Making Love. 

 Erin's Flag. 



Essay on the Elephant. 

 Father Front's Sermon. 

 Fireman's Story. The. 

 Fisher's Wife, The. 

 Free Seat, A. 

 Freckled- Face Girl, The 



Not Opposed to Matri- 

 mony. 

 Old Actor's Story, The. 

 Old Sergeant, The. 

 On the Other Train. 



Frenchman's Version of Oratory and the Press. 

 Youug Norval. Original Love Story, An. 



Bound in illuminated paper cover. - - - 



Our First Cigars. 

 Paddy's Lament. 

 Parson Snow's Broad Hint 

 Philip Barton, Engineer. 

 Photograph Album, The. 

 Railway Matin* e, A. 

 Religious Card Player. 

 Robert Emmet. 

 Romance of a Hammock. 

 Shoemaker's Daughter, 



The. 

 Smiting the Rock. 

 Solomonitra. 

 S'posin'. 



Stage Driver's Story, The. 

 Supper of St. Gregory, The 

 Tale of the Tenth Hussars 

 Test, A. 

 That Queen. 

 Trying to Lick the 



Teacher. 

 Unknown Dead. 

 Widder, The. 

 Widow's Son. The. 

 Woman at Poker. 



Price, 25 cents. 



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CONTE NTS. 



Katrina's Visit to New Providence Pulled him 

 York. Through. 



Legend of Inuisfa'len, The Rag-picker, The. 



Lost and Found. Shipwrecked. 



Maniac. The. Soft Guitar. The. 



Mr. Fisher's Bereavement. Song of the Sh'rc. 



My Neighbor's Baby. Spring House-cleaning. 



Nora Murphy and the Story of the Faithful Soul. 

 Spirits. Street Cries. 



Occupant of Lower No. 3, That Woman Played De- 

 The. spair. 



Drama of Three, The. Old Man Goes to Town, Tirzah Ann's Summer 

 Duel between Mr. Shott The. Trip. 



Anx Italiens, 



Bells of Shandon. 



Bishop of Ross, The. 



I'.uilding and Being. 



Charity Dinner, The. 



Connor. 



Crazy Kate. 



Cuddle Doon. 



Death of the Old Squire, 



The. 

 DotBaby off Mine, 



aud Mr. Nott. 

 Emigrants, The. 

 Fashionable Schoolgirl 



The. 

 Hie Last Court. 

 How "Ruby" Played. 

 How Sockery Set a Hen. 

 Jiners, The. 

 Justice in Leadville. 

 Knight's Toast, The. 



Oration on the Labor To Draw or Not to Draw. 



Question. Treadwater Jim. 



Over the Hill from the Two Glasses, The. 



Poor House. Uncle Ike's Roosters. 



Over the Hill to the Poor What Intemperance Does 



House. What Made Him Glad. 



Paddy's Reflections on Widow Cummiskey, The. 



Cleopaihera's Needle. iWickedest Man in Mem- 

 Piece of Red Calico, phis. 

 Pledge with Wine. [Winnie's Welcome. 

 Bound in illuminated paper cover. - . . - Price, 25 cents* 

 For sale by all Booksellers, or will be sent, poet-paid, on receipt of price. 



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