STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 28.

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The Ballad of the Colors. Thomas Dunne English	3
The Dying Umpire	4
Goliath and David	4
Mr. Schmidt’s Mistake. Chas. F. Adams	5
Sned Skinflint’s Scheme. R. K. M.	5
Diamond cut Diamond. By John E. M‘Cann	6
Rory’s Kissing School	7
Reading a Dime Novel	8
Paddy ye Rascal	9
Uncle Peter’s Counsel to the Newly Married. Edmund Kirke	9
Bravest of the Brave. R. J. Burdette	10
A Wail of Toe	10
Mine Shildren. Charles Follen Adams	10
The Cultured Daughter of a Plain Grocer	11
Kelly at the Bat	12
“De ’Lection fer Jedge.” Unk’l Isam	13
What is Done at Saratoga. By John G. Saxe	14
When Greek meets Greek. Anon.	15
Rules for Husbands	15
Rules for Wives	16
Hustler Joe	16
Coming Home. Hugh Willoughby Sweeney	17
The Minstrels of the Night	18
Baggage-Master Brick’s Lunch Can	18
Short Summer Sermons. By Bro. Gardner	19
In Holland. Eugene Field	19
The Soft Guitar. P. F. Bowne	20
He Led his Class	20
“Human Natur’.” By Bro. Gardner	21
Shoo	21
The New Lochinvar	22
The Banana Peel	23
“Der Kicker und der Krank.” Emile Pickhardt	23
Uncle Pete and Marse George. Anon.	23

Tim Murphy’s Stew	25
De Yaller Chinee	25
Exclamatory	26
Getting Right Up	27
He Guessed he’d Fight	27
Address of the President of the Lazy Club. Anonymous	28
Paddy’s Reflections on Cleopathera’s Needle. Cormac O’Leary	29
Why she was Salted	29
More Coyness	30
A Costly Beverage	30
Smoking his First Cigar	30
The Mosquito Adjured	31
She was a Shaker	32
The Bicycle and the Pup	32
The Mutilated Currency Question	32
Carl Dunder Talks to the Children	33
Business and Gambling	34
Fate	34
Some Simple Says	34
The Girl-Shooter	34
About Bores. Alexander E. Sweet	35
Hamlet to his Mother	36
Quit your Foolin’	37
The Necktie	37
A Leadville Sermon on the “Prod.”	37
How they Said Good-Night	38
Uncle Moses and the Comet. Ruth Argyle	39
His Heart was True to Poll	40
Pat’s Love. By Joe Jot, Jr.	41
The Montgomery Guard	42
Too Many for Him	42
Method in It	43
His Guileless Look. Thomas Holmes	42
Our Minister’s Sermon	44
Aunt Sophronia Tabor at the Opera	44
A Street Gamin’s Story of the Play. Anonymous	46
The Country Store. Nathan D. Urner	47
The Printer’s Revenge	48
The Father to his Boy	48

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