Poison: A Farce

by George M. Baker

Twitters (shaking her off. To himself). I shall have to send for Hunker.

Curtain.

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No.1	Reading Club and Handy Speaker. Edited by George M. Baker. Price, cloth, 50 cents; paper, 15 cents.

CONTENTS.

The Red Jacket	George M. Baker.
Old Age
Mahmoud	Leigh Hunt.
The Closet Scene from “Hamlet”
How he saved St. Michael’s	Aldine.
Samson
The Story of the Bad Little Boy who didn’t come to Grief	Mark Twain.
Mr. Caudle and his Second Wife	Douglas Jerrold’s Fireside Saints.
Tauler	Whittier.
The Doorstep	E. C. Stedman.
Old Farmer Gray gets photographed	John H. Yates.
Mr. O’Gallagher’s Three Roads to Learning	Capt. Marryat.
The Jester’s Sermon	Walter Thornbury.
“The Boofer Lady”	Dickens’s “Mutual Friend.”
Defiance of Harold the Dauntless	Scott.
Battle Hymn	Körner.
The Story of the Faithful Soul	Adelaide Procter.
“Curfew must not ring To-Night”	Rosa Hartwick Thorpe.
The Showman’s Courtship	Artemus Ward.
How Terry saved his Bacon
The Senator’s Pledge	Charles Sumner.
Overthrow of Belshazzar	Barry Cornwall.
The Hour of Prayer	Mrs. Hemans.
The Squire’s Story	John Phœnix.
The Happiest Couple	Sheridan.
Godiva	Tennyson.
Farmer Bent’s Sheep-Washing
The Deutsch Maud Muller	Carl Pretzel.
Charles Sumner	Carl Schurz.
The Bricklayers	G. H. Barnes.
A Stranger in the Pew	Harper’s Mag.
The Mistletoe-Bough	Bayley.
The Puzzled Census-Taker	J. G. Saxe.
The Voices at the Throne	I. Westwood.
Hans Breitmann’s Party	Charles G. Leland.
Rob Roy MacGregor	Walter Scott.
Der Drummer	Charles F. Adams.
The Yankee and the Dutchman’s Dog
Popping the Question
The Bumpkin’s Courtship
The Happy Life	Sir Henry Wotton.
At the Soldiers’ Graves	Robert Collyer.
Nobody there	Anonymous.
The Factory Girl’s Diary	Morton.
In the Tunnel
“Jones”
The Whistler
“Good and Better”
Jakie on Watermelon Pickle
The Old Methodist’s Testimony

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LEE and SHEPARD, Publishers, Boston.

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