Some serious, some comic, well suited for the purpose.
COMIC RECITATIONS.
912. The Crocodile King. By Southey.
913. Pairing Time Anticipated. By Cowper.
914. The Distressed Travellers; or, Labour in Vain. By Cowper.
A dialogue. If not in his poems, in Southey’s ‘Life of Cowper;’ also in ‘Aunt Charlotte’s Evenings at Home.’
915. Miss Kilmansegg and Her Golden Leg. By Hood.
If judiciously abridged, this will answer well.
916. The Walrus and the Carpenter. By Lewis Carroll. From ‘Through the Looking-Glass.’