McBride's Comic Speeches and Recitations. Designed for Schools, Literary and Social Circles. By H. Elliott McBride, Author of "McBride's Humorous Dialogues," etc., etc. This is one of the very best series of original speeches, in Yankee, Darkey, Spread-Eagle and village styles, with a number of diverting addresses and recitations, and funny stories, forming an excellent volume of selections for supplying the humorous element of an exhibition. Contents:
- A Burst of Indignation
- Disco'se by a Colored Man
- A Trumpet Sarmon
- Sarmon on Skilletvillers
- Nancy Matilda Jones
- Hezekiah's Proposal
- About the Billikinses
- Betsy and I are Out Once More
- A Stump Speech
- About Katharine
- Deborah Doolittle's Speech on Women's Rights
- A Salutatory
- A Mournful Story
- An Address to Schoolboys
- Zachariah Popp's Courtship and Marriage
- A Sad Story
- How to Make Hasty Pudding
- My Matilda Jane
- Courtship, Marriage, Separation and Reunion
- Lecture by a Yankee
- A Colored Man's Disco'se on Different Subjects
- A Girl's Address to Boys
- McSwinger's Fate
- Peter Peabody's Stump Speech
- Mr. Styx Rejoices on Account of a New Well Spring
- Victuals and Drink
- Speech by Billy Higgins on the Destruction of His Rambo Apple Tree
- A Boy's Address to Young Ladies
- An Old Man's Address to Young Wives
- Salu-ta-tat-n-a-ry
- Valedictory.
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Beecher's Recitations and Readings. Humorous, Serious, Dramatic. Designed for Public and Private Exhibitions. Contents:
- Miss Maloney at the Dentist's
- Lost and Found
- Mygel Snyder's Barty
- Magdalena
- Jim Wolfe and the Cats
- The Woolen Doll
- The Charity Dinner
- Go-Morrow or, Lot's Wife
- The Wind and the Moon
- Dyin' Words of Isaac
- Maude Muller in Dutch
- Moses the Sassy
- Yarn of the "Nancy Bell"
- Paddy the Piper
- Schneider sees "Leah"
- Caldwell of Springfield
- Artemus Ward's Panorama
- Tale of a Servant Girl
- How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull
- Tiamondts on der Prain
- King Robert of Sicily
- Gloverson the Mormon
- De Pint wid Ole Pete
- Pat and the Pig
- The Widow Bedott's Letter
- The Cry of the Children
- The Dutchman and the Small-pox
- Sculpin
- Rats—Descriptive Recitation
- A Reader Introduces Himself to an Audience
- A Dutchman's Dolly Varden
- "Rock of Ages"
- Feeding the Black Fillies
- The Hornet
- The Glove and the Lions
- I Vant to Fly
- That Dog of Jim Smiley's
- The Faithful Soul
- "My New Pittayatees"
- Mary Ann's Wedding
- An Inquiring Yankee
- The Three Bells
- Love in a Balloon
- Mrs. Brown on the Streets
- Shoo Flies
- Discourse by the Rev. Mr. Bosan
- Without the Children
- Signor Billsmethi's Dancing Academy
- Der Goot Lookin Shnow
- The Jumping Frog
- The Lost Chord
- The Tale of a Leg
- That West-side Dog
- How Dennis Took the Pledge
- The Fisherman's Summons
- Badger's Debut as Hamlet
- Hezekiah Stole the Spoons
- Paddy's Dream
- Victuals and Drink
- How Jake Schneider Went Blind
- Aurelia's Young Man
- Mrs. Brown on Modern Houses
- Farm Yard Song
- Murphy's Pork Barrel
- The Prayer Seeker
- An Extraordinary Phenomenon
- The Case of Young Bangs
- A Mule Ride in Florida
- Dhree Shkaders
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Dick's Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches. Containing the following Rich Collection of Negro Dialogues, Scenes, Farces, End-Men's Jokes, Gags, Rollicking Stories, Excruciating Conundrums, Questions and Answers for Bones, Tambo and Interlocutor, etc. Contents:
- I's Gwine to Jine de Masons
- Jes' Nail dat Mink to de Stable Do'—Oration
- But the Villain still Pursued Her—A Thrilling Tale
- Bones at a Free-and-Easy
- Buncombe Speech
- Shakespeare Improved
- End Gag—Bones and Tambo
- A Man of Nerve—Comic Sketch
- End Gag—Bones and Tambo
- Uncle Pete—Darkey Sketch
- The Rival Darkeys
- The Stage-Struck Darkey
- Add Ryman's Fourth of July Oration
- Absent-Mindedness—Bones and Tambo
- Don't Call a Man a Liar
- The Mysterious Darkey
- Rev Uncle Jim's Sermon
- The 'Possum-Run Debating Society
- Tim Murphy's Irish Stew
- Brudder Bones in Love—Interlocutor and Bones
- 'Lixey: or, The Old Gum Game—Negro Scene
- Brudder Bones' Duel
- Brudder Bones' Sweetheart
- Brudder Bones in Hard Luck
- Two Left-Bones and Tambo
- Speech on Boils
- How Bones Cured a Smoky Chimney
- Sermon on Keards, Hosses, Fiddlers, etc.
- Huggin' Lamp-Posts
- Not Opposed to Matrimony
- How Pat Sold a Dutchman
- The Coopers—one Act Farce
- Questions Easily Answered—Bones and Tambo
- Examination in Natural History—Minstrel Dialogue
- O'Quirk's Sinecure
- The Widower's Speech
- Bones at a Raffle
- Uncle Pete's Sermon
- Bones at a Soiree—Interlocutor and Bones
- Speech on Woman's Rights
- Bones' Discovery
- Mark Twain Introduces Himself—Characteristic Speech
- Speech on Happiness
- Burnt Corkers—Minstrel Dialogue
- The Nervous Woman
- The Five Senses—Minstrel Dialogue
- The Dutchman's Experience
- Essay on the Wheelbarrow
- Bones at a Pic-Nic
- The Virginia Mummy—Negro Farce
- Brudder Bones in Clover
- Artemus Ward's Advice to Husbands
- Where the Lion Roareth, and the Wang-Doodle Mourneth
- Romeo and Juliet in 1880
- Artemus Ward's Panorama
- Brudder Bones as a Carpet-Bagger—Interlocutor and Bones
- Major Jones' Fourth of July Oration
- Curiosities for a Museum—Minstrel Dialogue
- Burlesque Oration on Matrimony
- Brudder Bones on the Raging Canawl
- The Snackin'-Turtle Man—Ethiopian Sketch
- Bones' Dream—Ethiopian Sketch
- Come and Hug Me
- Widow O'Brien's Toast
- Scenes at the Police Court—Musical Minstrel Dialogue
- Brudder Bones as a Log-Roller
- De Pint Wid Old Pete—Negro Dialect Recitation
- A Touching Appeal—Dutch Dialect Recitation
- Wounded in the Corners
- Darkey Dialogue
- End Gag—Interlocutor and Bones
| 178 pages, paper covers | 30 cts. |
| Bound in board, cloth back | 50 cts. |
Kavanaugh's New Speeches and Dialogues for Young Children. Containing easy pieces in plain language, readily understood by little children, and expressly adapted for School Exhibitions and Christmas and other juvenile celebrations. By Mrs. Russell Kavanaugh. This is an entirely new series of Recitations and Dialogues by this author, and full of pieces, in her well-known style of familiar simplicity, admirably calculated to give the little ones additional opportunities to distinguish themselves before an audience. It contains the following: