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| The Ballad of the Colors. Thomas Dunne English | 3 |
| The Dying Umpire | 4 |
| Goliath and David | 4 |
| Mr. Schmidt’s Mistake. Chas. F. Adams | 5 |
| Sned Skinflint’s Scheme. R. K. M. | 5 |
| Diamond cut Diamond. By John E. M‘Cann | 6 |
| Rory’s Kissing School | 7 |
| Reading a Dime Novel | 8 |
| Paddy ye Rascal | 9 |
| Uncle Peter’s Counsel to the Newly Married. Edmund Kirke | 9 |
| Bravest of the Brave. R. J. Burdette | 10 |
| A Wail of Toe | 10 |
| Mine Shildren. Charles Follen Adams | 10 |
| The Cultured Daughter of a Plain Grocer | 11 |
| Kelly at the Bat | 12 |
| “De ’Lection fer Jedge.” Unk’l Isam | 13 |
| What is Done at Saratoga. By John G. Saxe | 14 |
| When Greek meets Greek. Anon. | 15 |
| Rules for Husbands | 15 |
| Rules for Wives | 16 |
| Hustler Joe | 16 |
| Coming Home. Hugh Willoughby Sweeney | 17 |
| The Minstrels of the Night | 18 |
| Baggage-Master Brick’s Lunch Can | 18 |
| Short Summer Sermons. By Bro. Gardner | 19 |
| In Holland. Eugene Field | 19 |
| The Soft Guitar. P. F. Bowne | 20 |
| He Led his Class | 20 |
| “Human Natur’.” By Bro. Gardner | 21 |
| Shoo | 21 |
| The New Lochinvar | 22 |
| The Banana Peel | 23 |
| “Der Kicker und der Krank.” Emile Pickhardt | 23 |
| Uncle Pete and Marse George. Anon. | 23 |
| Tim Murphy’s Stew | 25 |
| De Yaller Chinee | 25 |
| Exclamatory | 26 |
| Getting Right Up | 27 |
| He Guessed he’d Fight | 27 |
| Address of the President of the Lazy Club. Anonymous | 28 |
| Paddy’s Reflections on Cleopathera’s Needle. Cormac O’Leary | 29 |
| Why she was Salted | 29 |
| More Coyness | 30 |
| A Costly Beverage | 30 |
| Smoking his First Cigar | 30 |
| The Mosquito Adjured | 31 |
| She was a Shaker | 32 |
| The Bicycle and the Pup | 32 |
| The Mutilated Currency Question | 32 |
| Carl Dunder Talks to the Children | 33 |
| Business and Gambling | 34 |
| Fate | 34 |
| Some Simple Says | 34 |
| The Girl-Shooter | 34 |
| About Bores. Alexander E. Sweet | 35 |
| Hamlet to his Mother | 36 |
| Quit your Foolin’ | 37 |
| The Necktie | 37 |
| A Leadville Sermon on the “Prod.” | 37 |
| How they Said Good-Night | 38 |
| Uncle Moses and the Comet. Ruth Argyle | 39 |
| His Heart was True to Poll | 40 |
| Pat’s Love. By Joe Jot, Jr. | 41 |
| The Montgomery Guard | 42 |
| Too Many for Him | 42 |
| Method in It | 43 |
| His Guileless Look. Thomas Holmes | 42 |
| Our Minister’s Sermon | 44 |
| Aunt Sophronia Tabor at the Opera | 44 |
| A Street Gamin’s Story of the Play. Anonymous | 46 |
| The Country Store. Nathan D. Urner | 47 |
| The Printer’s Revenge | 48 |
| The Father to his Boy | 48 |
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STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 29.
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| The Captain’s Well. By J. G. Whittier | 3 |
| At Fredericksburg—Dec. 13, 1862. John Boyle O’Reilly | 4 |
| Extract from Blaine’s Oration on James A. Garfield | 6 |
| Drawing for Furlough | 7 |
| The Ride of Paul Venarez | 8 |
| Who’s Dead. Thomas Frost | 9 |
| The Peril of the Mines | 10 |
| Heroes. Francis A. Shaw | 12 |
| Keenan’s Charge. Geo. P. Lathrop | 12 |
| The Legend of the Organ Builder. Julia C. R. Dorr | 13 |
| The Auctioneer’s Gift. S. W. Foss | 15 |
| A War Episode. By Wallace P. Reed | 15 |
| The Volunteer Organist. By S. W. Foss | 16 |
| The Dandy Fifth. Frank H. Gassaway | 17 |
| Sure Enough. Ernest McGaffey | 18 |
| A Dream of the Universe. Jean Paul Richter | 19 |
| Petit Jean. Mary A. Barr | 19 |
| At the Hospital. J. P. B. | 20 |
| The Conductor’s Story. By B. J. M‘Dermott | 21 |
| His Sweet heart’s Song. Fred C. Dayton | 22 |
| In a Crowd. Marianne Farningham | 23 |
| The Emperor’s Breakfast. Edwin Arnold | 24 |
| After the Curfew. Oliver Wendell Holmes | 24 |
| An Essay on Home. By Margaret O’Gorman | 25 |
| Retrospection. Alfred Lyall | 26 |
| Matins. Edna Dean Proctor | 28 |
| An Army Overcoat. George Archibald | 29 |
| Little Tom. C. B. Lewis | 30 |
| The March of the Workers. William Morris | 31 |
| The Seafarer. G. R. Merry | 32 |
| We’ve always been provided for | 32 |
| Saved by a Ghost. Eben E. Rexford | 33 |
| Pardon Complete. Clara G. Dolliver | 35 |
| Artie’s “Amen.” Paul Hamilton Hayne | 35 |
| Our Old Doctor | 36 |
| Don’t Blame the World | 37 |
| Humpty Dumpty. Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney | 38 |
| Kate Shelley. Eugene J. Hall | 39 |
| Danger or Vast Fortunes. Horace Mann | 40 |
| Our Two Opinions. James Whitcomb Riley | 41 |
| The Policeman’s Story. Geo. Birdseye | 41 |
| Public Opinion. C. Farrar | 42 |
| St. John the Aged | 43 |
| A Mother’s Thoughts | 45 |
| The Singer’s Climax | 46 |
| Two Soldiers at Gettysburg. Isaac F. Eaton | 47 |
| A Message from Mamma in Heaven | 47 |
| A Mother’s Answer. Lillie E. Barr | 48 |
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