- 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, Lots 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 [TN: possibly Bats]—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
Paper covers. Price 30 cts.
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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 Larkey
- 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.
Tambo’s End-Men’s Minstrel Gags. Containing some of the best Jokes and Repartees of the most celebrated “burnt cork” performers of our day. Tambo and Bones in all sorts and manner of scrapes. This Book is full of Burnt-Cork Drolleries, Funny Stories, Colored Conundrums, Gags and Witty Repartee, all the newest side-splitting conversations between Tambo, Bones, and the Interlocutor, and will be found useful alike to the professional and amateur performer. Contents:
- A Bird that can’t be Plucked
- Annihilating Time
- At Last
- Bashful
- Bet, The
- Big Fortune, A
- Blackberrying
- Black Swan, The
- Bones and his little Game
- Bones and the Monkey Tricks
- Bones as a Fortune Teller
- Bones as a Legitimate Actor
- Bones as a Pilot
- Bones as a Prize Fighter
- Bones as a “Stugent”
- Bones as a Traveler
- Bones as a Victim to the Pen
- Bones as a Walkist
- Bones assists at the Performance of a New Piece
- Bones attends a Seance
- Bones finds Himself Famous
- Bones gets Dunned
- Bones gets Stuck
- Bones has a Small Game with the Parson
- Bones’ Horse Race
- Bones in an Affair of Honor
- Bones in Love
- Bones keeps a Boarding House
- Bones on the War Path
- Bones on George Washington
- Bones on the Light Fantastic
- Bones Opens a Spout Shop
- Bones Plays O’Fella
- Bones sees a Ghost
- Bones Slopes with Sukey Sly
- Bones tells a “Fly” Story
- Brother will come home tonight
- Bones as a Carpet Bagger
- Bones as an Inkslinger
- Bones in a New Character
- Bones in Clover
- Bones’ Love Scrape
- “Cullud” Ball, The
- Conundrums
- Curious Boy
- Dancing Mad
- Dat’s What I’d Like to Know
- Definitions
- De Mudder of Inwention
- Difference, The
- Don’t Kiss every Puppy
- “Far Away in Alabam’”
- First White Man, The
- Fishy Argument
- Four-Eleven-Forty-Four
- Four Meetings, The
- From the Poiks
- Girl at the Sewing Machine
- Hard Times
- Hard to take a Hint
- Heavy Spell, A
- Highfalutin’
- Horrible!
- How Bones became a Minstrel
- How Tambo took his Bitters
- How to do it
- Impulsive Oration
- Inquisitive
- Jeallusest of her Sect
- Legal Problem, A
- Liberal Discount for Cash
- Manager in a Fix, The
- Mathematics
- Merry Life, A
- Momentous Question
- Mosquitoes
- Music
- Notes
- Ob Course
- Our Shop Girls
- Pomp and Ephy Green
- Presidency on de Brain
- Proposed Increase of Taxes
- Railroad Catastrophe
- Reality versus Romance
- Rough on Tambo
- Sassy Sam and Susie Long
- School’s In
- Shakespeare with a Vengeance
- Simple Sum in Arithmetic
- Sleighing in the Park
- Sliding Down the Hill
- Style
- Sublime
- Swearing by Proxy
- Tambo’s Travelling Agent
- That Dear Old Home
- “The Pervisions, Josiar”
- Thieves
- Tonsorial
- Toast, A
- Uncle Eph’s Lament
- Waiting to See Him Off
- You Bet
- And 40 popular songs and dances.
Everything new and rich. Paper covers 30 cts.
Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
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-u-a-ry
- Valedictory.