THE COO-EE RECITER.

BY

AUSTRALIAN, BRITISH, AND
AMERICAN AUTHORS.

HUMOROUS, PATHETIC, DRAMATIC, DIALECT, RECITATIONS & READINGS.

WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED, LONDON, MELBOURNE & TORONTO.

CONTENTS.

[I Killed a Man at Graspan]M. Grover.7
[Kitty O'Toole]W. L. Lumley.9
[The Ballad of the Drover]Henry Lawson.10
[The Rescue]Edward Dyson.13
[Saltbush Bill]A. B. Paterson.17
[Drought and Doctrine.]J. Brunton Stevens.20
[The Martyr]Victor J. Daley.25
[The Carrying of the Baby]Ethel Turner.28
[The Old Gum]Florence Bullivant.34
[Murphy shall not Sing To-night]Montague Grover.36
[Christmas Bells]John B. O'Hara, M.A.39
[Wool is Up]Garnet Walch.41
[Wool is Down]Garnet Walch.42
[The Highland Brigade Buries its Dead]Lieut.-Col. W. T. Reay.45
[Australia's Call to Arms]John B. O'Hara, M.A.49
[Good News]Garnet Walch.51
[Free Trade v. Protection]Garnet Walch.53
[The Lion's Cubs]Garnet Walch.59
[The Little Duchess]Ethel Turner.62
[Australia's Springtime]W. L. Lumley.70
[The Man that saved the Match]David M'Kee Wright.73
[Ode for Commonwealth Day, 1st January, 1901] 77
[A Desperate Assault] 79
[The Game of Life] John G. Saxe.83
[Prejudice]Charlotte Perkins Stetson.85
[The Poor and the Rich]James Russell Lowell.86
[The Engineer's Story] 88
[Seeing's not Believing.]Thomas Haynes Bayley.90
[Caudle has been made a Mason]Douglas Jerrold.93
[Mrs. Caudle's Lecture]Douglas Jerrold.95
[Jim Bludso]Colonel John Hay.97
[How Uncle Mose Counted the Eggs] 99
[The Negro Baby's Funeral.]Will Carleton.101
[Der Shpider und der Fly]Charles Follen Adams.104
[Lariat Bill]G. W. H.106
[The Elf Child; or, Little Orphant Annie]James Whitcomb Riley.108
[Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene]Matthew Gregory Lewis (Monk Lewis).110
[An All-around Intellectual Man.]Tom Masson.114
[Her Ideal]Kate Masterson.115
[The Happy Farmer.]Mortimer C. Brown.116
[The Son of a Soldier]Owen Oliver.118
[The Mile]David M'Kee Wright.119

THE COO-EE RECITER