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[CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.]
| All Baggage at the Risk of the Owner | 334 |
| A Duel in 1830 | 399 |
| A Dull Town | 179 |
| Animal Mechanics | 524 |
| A Possible Event | 786 |
| A Primitive People | [111] |
| Armory at Springfield. By Jacob Abbott. | 145 |
| Auld Robin Gray—a Ballad | [1] |
| A Terribly Strange Bed | 202 |
| Bleak House. By Charles Dickens. | [7], 229, 358, 505, 638, 791 |
| British Museum and Zoological Gardens By Fredrika Bremer | 201 |
| Celebrated French Clockmaker | [86] |
| Church of the Cup of Cold Water | [34] |
Comicalities, Original and Selected.