The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller / Being the most complete work on fortune-telling and interpreting dreams ever printed, containing an alphabetical list of dreams, with their interpretation, and the lucky numbers they signify. Also explaining how to tell fortunes by the mysterious golden wheel, with cards, dice, and dominoes. How to tell future events by the lines of the hands, by moles on the body, by the face, nails of the fingers, hair and shape of the head. How to find where to dig for water, coal, and all kinds of metals, by means of the celebrated divining or luck rod. How to tell the temper and disposition of anybody, how to tell fortunes with tea leaves and coffee grounds, signs of the Moon's age, lucky and unlucky days, together with charms to make your sweetheart love you, and to make a lover pop the question, with twenty ways of telling fortunes on New Year's eve, and a complete language and signification of the flowers.

by Felix Fontaine

• Der Mule Shtood on der Steamboad Deck.
• Go Vay, Becky Miller.
• Der Drummer.
• Mygel Snyder’s Barty.
• Snyder’s Nose.
• Dyin’ Vords of Isaac.
• Fritz und I.
• Betsey und I Hafe Bust Ub.
• Schneider sees Leah.
• Dot Funny Leetle Baby.
• Schnitzeri’s Philosopede.
• Der Dog und der Lobster.
• Schlosser’s Ride.
• Mine Katrine.
• Maud Muller.
• Ein Deutsches Lied.
• Hans and Fritz.
• Schneider’s Tomatoes.
• Deitsche Advertisement.
• Vas Bender Henshpecked.
• Life, Liberty and Lager.
• Der Goot Lookin’ Shnow.
• Mr. Schmidt’s Mistake.
• Home Again.
• Dot Surprise Party.
• Der Wreck of der Hezberus.
• Isaac Rosenthal on the Chinese Question.
• Hans Breitmann’s Party.
• Shoo Flies.
• A Dutchman’s Answer.
• How Jake Schneider Went Blind.
• I Vash so Glad I Vash Here.
• The Dutchman and the Yankee.
• How the Dutchman Killed the Woodchuck.
• Der Nighd Pehind Grisdmas.
• The Dutchman’s Snake.
• Yoppy’s Yarder und Hees Drubbles.
• Dhree Shkaders.
• Katrina Likes Me Poody Vell.
• Hans in a Fix.
• Leedle Yawcob Strauss.
• How a Dutchman was Done.
• Dot Lambs vot Mary Haf Got.
• The Yankee and the Dutchman’s Dog.
• Zwei Lager.
• Schneider’s Ride.
• The Dutchman and the Small-pox.
• Tiamondts on der Prain.
• A Dutchman’s Testimony in a Steamboat Case.
• Hans Breitmann and the Turners.

FRENCH DIALECT.

• The Frenchman’s Dilemma; or, Number Five Collect Street.
• The Frenchman’s Revenge.
• Noozell and the Organ Grinder.
• How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull.
• Mr. Rogers and Monsieur Denise.
• The Frenchman and the Landlord.
• The Frenchman and the Sheep’s Trotters.
• A Frenchman’s Account of the Fall.
• I Vant to Fly.
• The Generous Frenchman.
• The Frenchman and the Flea Powder.
• The Frenchman and the Rats.
• Monsieur Tonson.
• Vat You Please.
• The Frenchman and the Mosquitoes.
• The Frenchman’s Patent Screw.
• The Frenchman’s Mistake.
• Monsieur Mocquard Between Two Fires.

YANKEE DIALECT.

• Mrs. Bean’s Courtship.
• Hez and the Landlord.
• Squire Billings’ Pickerel.
• Deacon Thrush in Meeting.
• The Yankee Fireside.
• Peter Sorghum in Love.
• Mrs. Smart Learns how to Skate.
• Capt. Hurricane Jones on the Miracles.
• The Dutchman and the Yankee.
• The Yankee Landlord.
• The Bewitched Clock.
• The Yankee and the Dutchman’s Dog.
• Aunt Hetty on Matrimony.
• The Courtin’.
• Ebenezer on a Bust.
• Sut Lovingood’s Shirt.

This Collection contains all the best dialect pieces that are incidentally scattered through a large number of volumes of  “Recitations and Readings,” besides new and excellent sketches never before published.
170 pages, paper cover 30 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Dick’s Irish Dialect Recitations. A carefully compiled Collection of Rare Irish Stories, Comic, Poetical and Prose Recitations, Humorous Letters and Funny Recitals, all told with the irresistible Humor of the Irish dialect. Containing

• Biddy’s Troubles.
• Birth of St. Patrick, The.
• Bridget O’Hoolegoin’s Letter.
• Connor.
• Dermot O’Dowd.
• Dick Macnamara’s Matrimonial Adventures.
• Dying Confession of Paddy M’Cabe.
• Father Molloy.
• Father Phil Blake’s Collection.
• Father Roach.
• Fight of Hell-Kettle, The.
• Handy Andy’s Little Mistakes.
• How Dennis Took the Pledge.
• How Pat Saved his Bacon.
• Irish Astronomy.
• Irish Coquetry.
• Irish Drummer, The.
• Irish Letter, An.
• Irish Philosopher, The.
• Irish Traveler, The.
• Irishman’s Panorama, The.
• Jimmy McBride’s Letter.
• Jimmy Butler and the Owl.
• King O’Toole and St. Kevin.
• Kitty Malone.
• Love in the Kitchen.
• Micky Free and the Priest.
• Miss Malony on the Chinese Question.
• Mr. O’Hoolahan’s Mistake.
• Paddy Blake’s Echo.
• Paddy Fagan’s Pedigree.
• Paddy McGrath and the Bear.
• Paddy O’Rafther.
• Paddy the Piper.
• Paddy’s Dream.
• Pat and the Fox.
• Pat and the Gridiron.
• Pat and his Musket.
• Pat and the Oysters.
• Pat’s Criticism.
• Pat’s Letter.
• Pat O’Flanigan’s Colt.
• Patrick O’Rouke and the Frogs.
• Paudeen O’Rafferty’s Say Voyage.
• Peter Mulrooney and the Black Filly.
• Phaidrig Crohoore.
• Rory O’More’s Present to the Priest.
• St. Kevin.
• Teddy O’Toole’s Six Bulls.
• Wake of Tim O’Hara, The.
• Widow Cummiskey, The.

This Collection contains, in addition to new and original pieces, all the very best Recitations in the Irish dialect that can be gathered from a whole library of  “Recitation” books. It is full of sparkling witticisms and it furnishes also a fund of entertaining matter for perusal in leisure moments.
170 pages, paper cover 30 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Beecher’s Recitations and Readings. Humorous, Serious, Dramatic. Designed for Public and Private Exhibitions. Contents: