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A Day. By John G. Whittier	7
A Keeper’s Story. By Ethel Lynn	21
An Empty Nest. By Mary A. Barr	30
Advice to Boys	34
A Tramp’s Philosophy	37
Cæsar Passing the Rubicon. By J. Sheridan Knowles	5
Confession of a Drunkard	6
Courage, Boy, Courage!	17
Character of Napoleon. By Lamartine	38
Do Not Rust Out	24
England. By Charles Mackay	19
Even This Shall Pass Away	32
En Voyage	38
Education. By Schuyler Colfax	47
Fancy or Fact. By James Russell Lowell	6
Great Lives Imperishable. Edward Everett	19
How Riches are to be Measured	18
If We Knew	10
In Scotia Dear	35
Liberty. By Frank E. Brush	20
Little Jim. George R. Sims	25
Live for Good. Rev. J. J. Case	31
Logan at Atlanta	36
Malibran and the Young Musician	12
My Portion	39
Napoleon the Little. Hugo	25
Night Before the Execution. Mary E. Bryan	45
Our Ships	8
Opposite Examples. Horace Mann	23
On Planting the Pear-tree. By Rev. Edward Hopper, D.D.	42
Resolution	34
Success. By B. F. Taylor	7
Spike that Gun	10
Saved. By Jennie Joy	44

The Cane-Bottomed Chair. W. M. Thackeray	8
The Cavalry Charge. By E. C. Stedman	5
The Missing Ship. By John B. Gough	9
The Burial of Chatham. Macaulay	15
The Hindu King’s Reply to the Missionary. Alfred C. Lyall	15
The Country’s Greatest Evil	16
The Pythian Flag up North	18
The Windy Night. By Thomas B. Reed	24
To Her. By Victor Hugo	25
The Phantom Wreck. Nathan D. Urner	26
The Shepherd of the People. Rev. P. Brooks	27
True Fame. By Jay	28
The Open Door	29
The American Indian. By Charles Sprague	29
The Trapper’s Last Trail. Madge Morris	31
The Two Lives	32
The Sabbath	32
The World from the Sidewalk	33
The Duellist’s Honor. By Bishop England	36
Trust in God, and do the Right. N. McLeod	40
The Miner’s Luck. J. W. Donovan	40
The Old School-house	41
The True Source of Reform. E. H. Chapin	42
The Cry of the Dreamer. John B. O’Reilly	43
The Lover’s Leap	46
The Bartholdi Statue. By John G. Whittier	48
Vanitas. Charles M. Harger	27
Whiskey in its Place	11
Who are the Free. By John C. Prince	21

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The Idyl of Battle Hollow. Bret Harte	3
How Tommy Went to Sea. Colonel Tom Ochiltree	4
The Martyrs of Sandom’r. M. Capel	6
Pike’s Peak. Eugene Field	7
Alone. Robert J. Burdette	8
Ingratitude Towards the Deity. Appleton	8
Legend of the Crossing Sweeper	9
Sergeant Jasper at Fort Moultrie. Louise Imogen Guiney	10
The Reveille	11
The Stoning of the Magdalen. F. E. Pratt	11
State’s Evidence. Margaret Cavendish	13
Mother’s Slipper	13
The Cradle Rocked. H. S. Keller	14
The Old Class Room	15
In the Dakota Blizzard. John Paul Bocock	16
Langsyne. D. M. Moir	17
Mrs. Grundy	18
The Baby and the Soldier	19
“Clear the Way.” Camilla Crosland	20
Wolfe Tone aboard the Hoche. David G. Adee	21
My Old Vag. M. Quad	21
Nobody Knows but Father. H. C. Dodge	23
The Brave at Home. T. Buchanan Read	23
Drunk in the Street	24
Posthumous Influence of the Wise and Good. Norton	24
“Me and Bob and Jim.” Ada Stewart Shelton	25
The Angelus	26
A Regular Bad ’Un. Frederick Langbridge	26

The Thank-You Prayer	27
The True Pride of Ancestry. Webster	28
Endurance	29
The Old Man and Jim. James Whitcomb Riley	30
Why Are We Here. C. G. Dann	31
Rural Occupations Favorable to the Sentiments of Devotion. Buckminster	31
The Moonshiner’s Daughter. M. B.	32
The Baby’s Prayer. Mrs. E. E. Williamson	34
How He Got Rich	34
The Midnight Tryst. Mary E. Bryan	35
The Four-Leaved Clover. A Decoration Day Reminiscence	37
What is Religion? Bishop Heber	38
All Light There. Mrs. M. L. Rayne	38
On the Field of Gettysburg. Ena Walton	39
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate!	39
Influence of Christianity in Elevating the Female Character. J. G. Carter	40
Would We Return? Robert Burns Wilson	41
The Rose. Mrs. Sigourney	42
Death	43
My Henry. James W. Riley	43
The Lock of Hair. Thomas Dunn English	44
Vita Nova	44
Description of a Death Scene. Miss Francis	45
St. Brigid	47
“To Many of We.”	47
Decoration Day. Minnie Irving	48

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Half-Way Doin’s. Irwin Russell	3
The Lady or the Tiger. Mayor Joseph Kirkland in The Century	5
Confidential	6
St. Jonathan	6
Shinbones Becomes an Umpire. W. J. Henderson	7
Uncle Ike’s Roosters. Aaron W. Fredericks	8
How “Old Mose” Counted Eggs	9
Trouble in the Choir. A. T. Worden	10
Who Makes the Soil	12
That Gentleman from Boston Town. Joaquin Miller	13
A Change of Views. W. Carey	14
The Story of Elizur. F. A. S.	15
Robin Hood and the Abbot. John Brook	16
Two Boot Blacks	17
A Reminiscence	18
Uncle Cuff “Rises Fur Ter ’Splain.” William Longfellow Haynie	18
The Canine Question. Alex. Sweet	19
The Setting Sachem	20
Asking the Gov’nor	21
The April Face. Thomas Nelson Page	22
Guilty, Of Course. G. Waldo	23
The Mosquito	24
Ode to the Full Moon. Allen Kelly	24
The Ballad of Hiram Hover	25
A Negro’s Account of the Prodigal Son	26
Don’t Shpoil Dot Leedle Fun. Emile Pickhardt	27

Mme. Eef	27
The Lightning-Rod Dispenser. Will Carleton	28
Why Women Marry	30
A Pathetic Old Man	31
The Druggist’s Vengeance	32
The Emancipation of Man	33
The Wickedest Man in Memphis. Alex. J. Brown	34
The Knights of the Road	35
Heinz Von Stein. Charles G. Leland	35
Chairley Burke’s in Town. James Whitcomb Riley	36
The Wife’s Strategy	36
Precepts at Parting. Irwin Russell	37
Advice to a Young Man. R. J. Burdette	38
The Chap that’s Been over to Lunnon	38
Noodleberry as a Neighbor. W. H. Ellis	39
How We Tried to Whip The Teacher. Eugene J. Hall	40
Der Sphider und der Fly. Charles Follen Adams	41
Katrina’s Visit to New York. Alex. T. Brown	42
The Turkish Bath. By A Young Woman	43
Our Boarding-House Thanksgiving	44
Managing a Mule. Irwin Russell	45
Der Oak und der Vine. Charles Follen Adams	45
The Skeleton’s Confession. E. S. V. Z.	46
How She Won Him	47
The Champion. Edward P. Jackson	48

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Shamus O’Brien, The Bold Boy of Glingall. Samuel Lover	3
The Soldier’s Reward. J. W. Donovan	7
The Kitten of the Regiment	9
Perils of a Teacher. J. W. Donovan	10
A Climb at Rouen. M. Betham Edwards	11
Catching the Colt	12
Something for Strikers	13
Harmony	13
By the Wayside. E. Doherty	14
The Unwelcomed Baby	15
Running Before It. William Constable	16
“Warned.” Crape Myrtle	17
The Old Wife’s Kiss	17
The Old Office-Desk. Henry J. Shellman	19
Chickens Come Home to Roost. Ernest M‘Gaffey	19
The Blacksmith of Ragenbach	20
The Old Mill. H. W. Field	21
One at a Time	22
The Hot Axle. T. De Witt Talmage	22
Ellsworth’s Avengers. Tripp	23
The Origin of Whiskey. H. Burgess	24
The Two Words. J. E. Dinkenga	25
Listeners. M. K. D.	25
The Delinquent Subscriber. Margaret Andrews Oldham	26

“Peace, Be Still.” Violet	27
A Short Debate on Rum. “Th’ Poet o’ Ante-Bar.”	28
The Participants in the Boston Massacre. John Hancock	28
Dandie. M. F. Bradley	29
The Nameless Guest. James Clarence Harvey	30
Slug Number Eleven	30
A Famous fight. David Graham Adee	32
More Cruel Than War	33
The Fall of the Alamo. Mrs. Barr	34
A New Gospel. Carlotta Perry	35
Making the Round. Mrs. M. L. Rayne	36
The Beautiful	37
Onatoga’s Sacrifice. John Dimitry	38
Joe Sieg. Alexander Anderson	39
Education. C. Phillips	41
Ingratitude; Or, Old Sport and His Master. Fred Williams	41
Old Uncle Jake	43
On the Rappahannock	44
The Better Land	45
Charity	45
St. Michael, the Weigher	46
The Orphan’s New Year. O. H.	46
The Inch Cape Bell	47
The Old Minstrel	47

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If I Should Die To-night	3
The American Union. Daniel Webster	4
Abon Ben Adhem. Leigh Hunt	4
A Child’s Cry	4
The Shamrock. Anna B. Reardon	5
The Face Against the Pane. T. B. Aldrich	6
Do Your Part. J. W. Donovan	7
The Reign of Terror. Thomas Carlyle	8
Life is so Long	8
Storming the Temple of Mexico. William H. Prescott	9
Giant and Dwarf	9
The Religious Card Player	10
Conscience at Death	11
The Sicilian Vespers	12
The Curse of Regulus	12
Death Makes All Men Brothers. Louise S. Upham	13
A Vision Rendered Into Poetry	15
At the Shaft’s Mouth. R. E. White	16
In the Tunnel	17
The Peaceful Life. Marianne Farningham	19
The Story of a Stowaway! Clement Scott	20
Loss of The Arctic. H. W. Beecher	21
The Emigrants. Charles McKay	22
The Tramp. J. J. R.	23
The Nail Maker	23
The Last of the Druids. James Jeffrey Roche	24
Personalities and Ill Reports. Dr. John Hall	24
The Sailor’s Song. B. W. Proctor	25
Nail the Colors to the Mast. Alfred H. Miles	25

The Unknown Hero	27
The Life-Boat	28
Milton’s Last Poem	28
How to Enliven Your Days—Work With a Will	28
The Soldier’s Pardon. James Smith	29
True Bravery—A Thrilling Sketch	30
The Last Broadside. Elizabeth T. P. Beach	31
The Faithful Friend	32
His Last Run	33
The Ship on Fire. C. McKay	33
The Care of God	34
My Ship at Sea. Thomas Dunn English	35
The Sailor’s Mother. W. Wordsworth	35
Independence Bell	36
The Unknown Future. Mary Kyle Dallas	37
Creating Criminals. Charles Dudley Warner	38
Martin’s Puzzle. George Meredith	38
The Ladder of St. Augustine. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	40
The Step-mother. Nathan D. Urner	41
Success. C. M. Harger	42
The Good Woman. I. B. Mean	42
All’s for the Best. M. F. Tupper	43
The Right Road. Ella Wheeler Wilcox	43
None Will Miss Thee	44
Little Orphant Annie. James Whitcomb Riley	44
Difference Between Taste and Genius. By Blair	45
Strength for To-Day	46
Washington. Eliza Cook	46
Found Drowned	47
The Rosary	48

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Concepcion De Arguello. Bret Harte	3
Eulogium on South Carolina. Robert Y. Hayne	5
The Brewing of Soma. John G. Whittier	6
The Wee, Wee Bairnie	7
Destiny. T. B. Aldrich	8
Without Me	8
South Carolina and Massachusetts. Daniel Webster	9
Burglar Bill	10
What My Lover Said. Homer Greene	11
The Curse to Labor. T. V. Powderly	12
The New Hail Columbia. Oliver Wendell Holmes	13
Reuben James. James Jeffrey Roche	13
Reply to Mr. Webster. Robert Y. Hayne	14
Vas Marriage a Failure? Charles Follen Adams	15
The Soul’s Farewell to the Body. Ella Wheeler Wilcox	16
A Woman’s Heart	16
The Minstrel’s Curse. Ludwig Uhland	17
Visions of Joan of Arc and Bishop of Beauvais. De Quincey	18
The Old Cornet Player. J. P. Bocock	20
Speech of Icilius to the Romans. Alfieri	21
The Watch of Boon Island. Mrs. Celia Thaxter	21
Rejoinder to Mr. Hayne. Daniel Webster	23
To Ireland. J. B. Killen	24
Christ Not a Christian. A. D.	25
The Forging of the Anchor. S. Ferguson	26

Speech of Shrewsbury before Queen Elizabeth. Schiller	26
And then? James Jeffrey Roche	28
The Tell Tale Heart. Edgar Allen Poe	28
The Convict’s Hopeless Lot. An Ex-convict	30
The Star of Bethlehem. Henry Kirke White	31
Success in Life. James A. Garfield	31
The Hindoo’s Search for Truth	32
The Spiritualist. L. W.	33
Last Charge of Ney. J. T. Headley	35
The Song of the Headlight. Hardy Jackson	36
One of the Signers. John Greenleaf Whittier	37
Apparitions. Thomas Carlyle	38
Farewell to Nature. Thomas Gordon Hake	39
Jim. James Whitcomb Riley	40
Grant’s Strategy. Judge Veazey	41
Just for To-day	42
A Hero of the Tropics. I. Edgar Jones	42
Priests unto God. Rose Terry Cooke	43
The Mayflower. Edward Everett	44
The Veiled Statue at Sais. Friedrich Schiller	45
Death of Hamilton. Eliphalet Nott	46
The Soldier’s Return. Susanna Blamire	47
Vicissitudes of 1849. Horace Greeley	47
Washington. Phillips	48

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A Bachelor. By Edgar I. Brenner	31
A City Incident. George Bancroft Griffith	20
A Noble Mind in a Grand Body	38
A Paraphrase of Seneca. By Eugene Field	17
A Picture. By H. Antoine D’Arcy	15
After Death in Arabia. Sir Edwin Arnold	8
An Old Temperance Poem	29
Batyushka. T. B. Aldrich	15
Ballad of the Bloody Brook. By Edward Everett Hale	3
Boys, Go Home	25
Comfort One Another	44
Crying for the Moon	35
Death Carol. Walt. Whitman	19
Evil of Duelling. By Lyman Beecher	12
Extract from “How I Consulted the Oracle of the Goldfishes.” James Russell Lowell	10
Farmer Kent’s Parson. Margaret Holmes	40
Found Dead. By Sarah T. Bolton	26
Good-by Er Howdy-do? J. Whitcomb Riley	42
Have Patience	44
If. By Anstiss W. Curtiss	46
Illusions. By E. A.	36
In Eulogy of Water. By Emory Storrs	8
Moral Power of Public Opinion. Daniel Webster	20
No National Greatness Without Morality. By W. E. Channing	45
Nobility	48
Old Boys. George W. Bungay	39
Our Lady of the Mine	24

One of the Multitude. By Margaret Veley	47
“Our Times not Degenerate.” By Chas. Emory Smith	5
Patient Mercy Jones. By James T. Fields	13
Remembrance of Wrongs. Rufus Choate	10
Royalty. Thomas S. Collier	7
The Skeleton Soldier. Mrs. Findley Braden	33
The Stones of Manhattan. By Willis Fletcher Johnson	34
The Two Brothers. By B. E. E.	9
The King’s Daughters	21
The Centre of Gravity	22
The Four Princes. Arthur G. Geoghegan	23
The Poet’s Political Thoughts. John Greenleaf Whittier	25
The Man Who Rode to Conemaugh. John Eliot Bowen	37
The Game of Warriors	41
The Yellow Sands of Sussex. By Douglas Sladen	43
The Face Upon the Floor. H. Antoine D’Arcy	16
The King’s Dust. Harriet Prescott Spofford	12
The Church and the World. By Mathilda C. Edwards	27
The Simple Man and the Wise Man. Pollok	45
The Moan of the Attic. Margaret J. Preston	4
To Florence Nightingale of England. By John Greenleaf Whittier	10
Two. By Rose Terry Cooke	11
Under the Daisies	32
Waiting for the Mail. By S. W. Foss	40
War with Big Guns	30
“Where the Willow Makes a Shade”	18

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The Sacrifice of Abraham. N. P. Willis	3
The Angel and the Shepherds. (From Ben Hur). Lew Wallace	5
The Dead Student. Will M. Carleton	6
Henry W. Grady. James Whitcomb Riley	7
The Fratricide. John Greenleaf Whittier	8
Back from the War. T. De Witt Talmage	10
The Luck of Edenhall. H. W. Longfellow	10
That Waltz of Von Weber. Nora Perry	11
Water and Rum. John B. Gough	12
The Boy who helps his Mother	13
Teamster Jim. R. J. Burdette	14
Miriam’s Song. Thomas Moore	14
Toussaint L’Ouverture. Wendell Phillips	15
The Engineer’s Story. Eugene J. Hall	16
The Influence of Woman. Webster	16
His Mother’s Songs	17
Mother’s Doughnuts. Charles F. Adams	18
Useless Philosophers	18
The Grave. H. W. Longfellow	19
I wouldn’t—Would you? Anonymous	19
Despair. Dow, Jr.	20
The Wife’s Appeal	21
Praying for Shoes. Paul Hamilton Hayne	21
The New South. H. W. Grady	23
Lincoln. James R. Lowell	24

The Lady of the Rock. Thomas Dunn English	25
A Ballad of East and West. Yussuf	27
The Light from over the Range	28
Charlie Wong. H. Antoine D’Arcy	30
The Indian’s Tale. John Greenleaf Whittier	31
Cities. Anonymous	32
The Leper. N. P. Willis	33
The Death of the Count Armaniac. A. Mary F. Robinson	36
One Thing at a Time	36
Song of the Mountaineers. T. Buchanan Read	37
The Battle Hymn. Theodore Körner	38
A Beautiful Death. Eli Perkins	38
Annie’s Ticket	39
Bad Prayers. Bronson Alcott	39
Mattie Stephenson. Anonymous	40
The Two Pictures	40
Where God’s Hand is Seen. Captain Jack Crawford	42
The Sway of the Senses	43
Burial of the Minnisink. H. W. Longfellow	44
Mary O’Connor, the Volunteer’s Wife. Mary A. Denison	45
The Preservation of the Union. Daniel Webster	45
Our Women Heroes. Kate Brownlee Sherwood	46
The Prayers of all Living Creatures	46
Wisdom Dearly Purchased. Edmund Burke	47
Keep Pegging Away	48

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The Seeking. J. T. Trowbridge	3
The Ballad of the King’s Jest. Yussuf	4
Two Offerings. Henry W. Longfellow	6
A History. T. De Witt-Talmagen	7
The Senator’s Grandmother. Patience Stapleton	8
The March of the Years. Marianne Farningham	10
The Song of the Sirens. F. Marion Crawford	11
Agriculture. D. S. Dickinson	12
Wealth Untold. Charles Mackay, LL.D.	13
Irish Hearts and Irish Hands. Mary E. Blake	13
Fame, Wealth, Life, Death. Walter W. Skeat	14
Down in the Valley. M. Quad	15
The Home Fireside. Mary Rowles	16
Some Things Forever	17
Stratford Fountain. Oliver Wendell Holmes	17
Sympathy. Chriss Wilson	19
The World is what we make it. S. Moore	19
A Woman’s Story	19
Life’s Game of Ball	21
The most gifted of Mortals	22
To a Lady for a Picture of Pansies. T. W. Parsons	23
Just Away. J. W. Riley	23
The Lost Kiss. J. W. Riley	24
The Wonderful Country. John Boyle O’Reilly	24
The Power of Love. J. W. Donovan	25
Lost at Sea. C. S. Williams	25
Lost in the Clouds. Mary E. Bryan	26
The Dome of the Republic. Anonymous	28

Margaret. Henry William Herbert	28
Wasted. Rev. J. F. Norton	29
Gentleman Jim. Daniel O’Connell	30
Civilization of Africa. Edward Everett	31
A Story of Fredericksburg. Herbert W. Collingwood	31
Grandfather’s Rose. Mary A. Denison	32
The Mirage. H. T. B.	33
Christianity Essential to Liberty. Kossuth	33
Two Sinners. Ella Wheeler Wilcox	34
The Shunammite. N. P. Willis	35
The Demon of the Fire. Edgar A. Poe	37
The Successful Farmer	38
Who carries on the Business. Alfred J. Hough	38
Happy the Man of Steadfast Faith. Solomon Solis-Cohen	39
The Sailor Boy’s Sister. Francis Lucas	39
Human Love	40
My Picture Gallery. Adelaide Anne Proctor	40
A Pack of Cards. Janet Cossar	41
A Lame Boy’s Query. Alexander L. Kinkead	42
Kate. B. F. Sawyer	43
The Ould Canteen	43
The Cell of the Missionary. W. L. Bowles	44
Uncle Jake. Kris Kyle	45
The Tyneside Widow. Algernon Charles Swinburne	46
The Convict’s Mother. Katherine S. Mason	47
Of His Pitiable Transformation. Robert Louis Stevenson	47
Ostler Joe. Geo. R. Sims	48

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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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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
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Artie’s “Amen.” Paul Hamilton Hayne	35
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Danger or Vast Fortunes. Horace Mann	40
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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
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A legend. A. A. Procter	14
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A dead past. A. A. Procter	9
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Beyond. A. A. Procter	22
Barefooted after the cows. Fred Emerson Brooks	16
Evarra and his gods. Rudyard Kipling	35
Friar Serverus. Clifford Lanier	16
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Father Flynn as peacemaker	5
Grandmother	11
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Happiness	12
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Lord Manner’s leap. Lillie E. Barr	21
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Mother’s Prayer	35
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Sorrow. Joan Volk	46
The Wine that Conquers Care. Gen. Wm. Hains Lytle	48
The Truth. Archibald Lampman	48
The Poor Man’s Wife	39
The Old School Clock. John Boyle O’Reilly	42
The Engine Driver’s Story. W. Wilkins	31
The Legend of Van Bibber’s Rack. Emma D. Banks	32
The last Milestone. Josephine Pollard	29
The Fellow in Greasy Jeans. Charles F. Lummis	29
The Ships that sailed away. Hester Crawford Dorsey	28
The Life Brigade. Minnie Mackay	23
The Dakine Snake. J. Boyle O’Reilly	24
The Word of the King. Mary H. Krout	19
The Czar and the Bridge-keeper’s Wife. Count Chapolsky	19
Two Poor Old Souls. Margaret Eytinge	20
The Woman-Soul. Courtlandt Palmer	17
The Secret Mourner. James Dawson	15
Tootsie Brant. H. Antoine D’Arcy	9
The Huguenot Lovers. As Recited by Miss Jane Stuart	3
The Drunkard’s Lament. E. D. Baker	12
What is Good. John Doyle O’Reilly	27
Woman’s Rights	17
Xmas Eve Ballad. Elmer Ruan Coates	30
You and I and He. Elizabeth Oakes Smith	18

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“Are the Children Safe at Home?” Lillie E. Barr	44
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Bedrock Philosophy	10
Borrowed Troubles. Mrs. S. L. Schenck (Mrs. Thornton)	21
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Best Helper, The	34
Before the Gate. W. D. Howells	40
Broken Toys, The. Nathan D. Urner	42
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Battle of Beal an’ Duine. Walter Scott	47
Captain’s Dream, The. Andrew Lang	4
Could we but Tell. U. S. G. Johnston	7
Content. James W. Riley	17
Compensation. Celia Thaxter	17
City of the Living, The	19
Come Home, Children. Mary A. Barr	29
Divine Lullaby, The. Eugene Field	16
Defence from Impeachment. A. Marat	20
Defence from the Charge of Tyranny. Robespierre	43
Drunkard’s Death, The. I. Edgar Jones	45
Do your Best	30
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Give Thanks fer what? W. F. Croffut	34
In the Harbor. Geo. R. Sims	4
I Wonder why	12
Indolence. Dennie	14
I Would Be Pure. Mrs. L. J. H. Frost	41
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Remember the Waifs. Mrs. M. A. Kidder	41
Reflections on the Battle of Lexington. Edward Everett	46
Story of Faith, The	23
Star, The. Victor Hugo	23
Study of Eloquence, The. Cicero	26
Seamstress’s Story, The	27
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Two Villages, The. Rose Terry Cooke	9
Take my Hand. Lillie E. Barr	11
Tale of a Bracelet, The. J. Leonard Hennessey	12
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To Mother. Ivanhoe	22
Vinous Fermentation. J. R. Williamson	33
Woman’s Question, A. Elizabeth Barrett Browning	11
Wearyin’ for you. F. L. Stanton	16
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Sunday. George Herbert	29
Saint Michael’s Bells. Frank L. Stanton	20
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Little Mag’s Victory. George L. Catlin	15
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Last Mile-Stones, The. Pearl Rivers	24
Life from Death. Horatius Bonar	37
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One of God’s Little Heroes. Margaret J. Preston	44
Old Man goes to School, The. John H. Yates	25
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Rabboni. M. J. Preston	22
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Sally in Our Alley. Henry Carey	16
Sister and I	19
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Station-Agent’s Story, The. Rose Hartwick Thorpe	45
True Success. F. Denton Merritt	5
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Czar and the Scout, The. Lillie E. Barr	24
Don’t be in a Hurry	26
Downhearted	41
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Ghosts of the Manor, The. Minnie Irving	14
Great Love and I. Francis Hodgson Burnett	30
Grey Knight, The. Thomas Dunn English	4
Guild’s Signal. Bret Harte	45
Her Chair.—A History. Francis Bennoch	21
Hope—Life—Man. Thos. Carlyle	41
Humanity. H. S. Keller	35
In Honor Bound. Nathan D. Urner	32
Jolly Robyn Roughhead	38
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Moray and his Thirty	39
Mother’s Vigil, The. Hugh Conway	37
Nathan Hale. Eugene Geary	3
Never too Late. Josephine Pollard	33
Only a Brakesman killed	8
Only a Woman. Dinah Maria Mulock	5
Our Traveled Parson. Will Carleton	10
Over the Crossin’	27
Raising the Evil One. Ingoldsby	34
Robert of Lincoln. Wm. Cullen Bryant	21
Scout, The. 1864	38
Sailor’s Wife, The. Nathan D. Urner	17
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She was a Phantom of Delight. Wadsworth	24
Single for Life	28
Song of Steam, The	37
Sotto Voce	20
Stowaway, The. Matthison	42
Tale of the Black Hills, A. Michael Lynch	22
Tired Mother, The	41
To my Mother. Heinrich Heine	31
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