Medley Dialect Recitations, Comprising a Series of the Most Popular Selections in German, French, and Scotch

by Unknown

Edited by GEORGE M. BAKER.

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Goin' Somewhere	M. Quod	5
Old Farmer Grey Gets Photographed	John H. Yates	8
Speech of the Hon. Perverse Peabody on the Acquisition of Cuba		10
Widder Green's Last Words		13
Widow Stebbins on Homœopathy	C. F. Adams	14
Farmer Bent's Sheep-Washing		16
The Little Peach		17
Mr. Pickwick's Romantic Adventure with a Middle-aged Lady in Yellow Curl-Papers	Dickens	18
Goin' Home To-day	W. M. Carleton	24
Jakie on Watermelon Pickle		25
Putty and Varnish	Josh Billings	26
London Zoölogical Gardens		28
Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man	Mark Twain	29
The Old Ways and the New	John H. Yates	31
The Bumpkin's Courtship		33
The Ballad of the Oysterman	Oliver Wendell Holmes	35
The Deck Hand and the Mule		36
A Lay of Real Life	Thomas Hood	37
Middlerib's Rheumatic Cure	R. J. Burdette	39
Two Fishers	Harper's Weekly	43
Jim Wolfe and the Cats	Mark Twain	44
Mr. Stiver's Horse	J. M. Bailey	46
Mosquitoes	Kaleb Keating	50
The City Man and the Setting Hen		51
The Owl Critic	James T. Fields	53
The Man with a Cold in His Head		54
Forcible Entry	J. M. Bailey	5?
The Village Sewing Society		57
Yankee Courtship		59
The Patter of the Shingle		63
The Paper Don't Say		64
The Jonesville Singin' Quire	Betsey Bobbitt	65
The Knife-Grinder	George Canning	69
Malaria		70
The Story of the Bad Little Boy who Didn't Come to Grief	Mark Twain	72
Mr. Caudle and His Second Wife	Douglas Jerrold	75
Mollie or Sadie		78
The Baffled Book Agent		79
She Would Be a Mason	James C. Leighton	80
The Loves of Lucinda	Mark Melville	83
Something Split		87
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous		88
A Howl in Rome	Bill Nye	89
Butterwick's Weakness		93
The Old Man Goes to Town	J. G. Swinnerton	95
Mr. Watkins Celebrates	Detroit Press	98
The Squire's Story	John Phœnix	99
The Conversion of Colonel Quagg	George Augustus Sala	100
In the Surf		105
Variegated Dogs	Peck	107
Judge Pitman's Watch	Max Adeler	110
An Æsthetic Housekeeper		111
"Mebbe" Joe's True Fish Story		112
Aunt Sophronia Tabor at the Opera		114
The Village Choir	Andre's Journal	117
The Light From Over the Range		118
The Christening	E. T. Corbett	121
Mr. Covill Proves Mathematics	J. M. Bailey	123
Mary's Lamb on a New Principle		124
Address of Spottycus		125
Our Visitor, and What He Came For		128
In the Catacombs	H. H. Ballard	130
The Showman's Courtship	A. Ward	132
Clerical Wit		134
Greely's Ride	Mark Twain	135
No Yearning for the Beautiful	Max Adeler	138
A Very Naughty Little Girl's View of Life		141
Burdock's Goat		142
Awfully Lovely Philosophy		145
Aunt Parsons' Story	Presbyterian Journal	146
The National Game		151
A Disturbance in Church	Max Adeler	153
The Engineer's Story	Eugene J. Hall	155
The Judge's Search for a Waterfall	Harper's Magazine	156
The Railroad Crossing		158
Asking the Gov'nor		159
Intensely Utter	Albany Chronicle	162
The Way Astors Are Made	J. M. Bailey	164
A Mysterious Disappearance	Dickens	166

THE GRAND ARMY SPEAKER.

Edited by GEORGE M. BAKER.

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The Rescue	John Brownjohn	5
Decoration	T. W. Higginson	8
The Little Black-eyed Rebel	Will Carleton	9
The Palmetto and the Pine	Mrs. Virginia L. French	11
Battle Hymn	Korner	13
The Song of the Dying		14
By the Alma River	Miss Mulock	15
At the Soldiers' Graves	Robert Collyer	17
The Sergeant of the Fiftieth		18
The Minute-men of '75	George William Curtis	19
Blue and Gray		21
Custer's Last Charge	Frederick Whittaker	23
The Pride of Battery B	F. H. Gassaway	25
The Cavalry Charge	F. A. Durivage	27
The Last Redoubt		28
Kelly's Ferry	Benjamin F. Taylor	30
Noble Revenge		34
Civil War	Anonymous	35
"Dashing Rod," Trooper	S. Conant Foster	36
The Tramp of Shiloh	Joaquin Miller	38
The Sharpshooter's Miss	Frank H. Gassaway	40
The Fight at Lookout	R. L. Cary, jun.	44
The Countersign was "Mary"	Margaret Eytinge	46
A Second Review of the Grand Army	Bret Harte	47
The Bivouac of the Dead		49
The Tramp	George M. Baker	52
The Canteen		55
The Charge by the Ford		56
Harry Brandon	Edmund E. Price	58
Post Number Three	Sherman D. Richardson	59
The Patriot Spy	F. M. Finch	62
The Dandy Fifth	Frank H. Gassaway	63
The American Flag	Joseph Rodman Drake	66
Somebody's Darling	Anonymous	68
"Little Potter's" Story		69
The Bravest Boy in Town	Emma Huntington Nason	71
Our Folks	Ethel Lynn	74
"Picciola"		76
"Fall in"	Mary Clemmer	78
"The Boys who Never Got Home"	George W. Peck	79
Abraham Lincoln and the Poor Woman		80
Elizabeth Zane	John S. Adams	82
Keenan's Charge		84
The Old Canteen		86
Mobile Bay		88
Ravenswood's Oath	A. Wallace Thaxter	90
The Story of the Swords	Adelaide Cilley Waldron	91
"Only a Crippled Soldier!"	J. Russell Fisher	93
Somebody's Pride	Clement Scott	97
My Wife and Child	Henry Rootes Jackson	98
The Song of the Drum	I. E. Diekenga	99
"Bay Billy"	Frank H. Gassaway	102
Sheridan's Ride		106
"Them Yankee Blankits"	Samuel W. Small	108
The Soldiers' Monument	John L. Swift	110
The Crutch in the Corner	John McIntosh	112
Roll-call		113
The Cruise of the Monitor	George M. Baker	115
Missing		117
Decoration Day	Mary Bassett Hussey	118
Back from the War	T. De Witt Talmage	120
A Piece of Bunting	Hon. F. W. Palmer	121
Grant's Strategy	Judge Veazey	123
The Charge at Valley Maloy		124
The Hero-woman	George Lippard	126
Union of Blue and Gray	Paul H. Hayne	130
After "Taps"	Horace Binney Sargent	131
The Soldier's Reprieve	Rosa Hartwick Thorpe	133
At Arlington	James R. Randall	135
The Man with the Musket	H. S. Taylor	137
A Baby Peacemaker	Herbert W. Collingwood	138
The Veterans	General Sherman	141
Barbara Frietchie	Whittier	142
What Saved the Union		144
Re-enlisted	Lucy Larcom	145
The Soldier's Dream	C. G. Fall	147