STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 28.
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The Ballad of the Colors. |Tim Murphy’s Stew 25
Thomas Dunne English 3|De Yaller Chinee 25
The Dying Umpire 4|Exclamatory 26
Goliath and David 4|Getting Right Up 27
Mr. Schmidt’s Mistake. |He Guessed he’d Fight 27
Chas. F. Adams 5|Address of the President of
Sned Skinflint’s Scheme. R.K.M. 5| the Lazy Club. Anonymous 28
Diamond cut Diamond. By |Paddy’s Reflections on
John E. M‘Cann 6| Cleopathera’s Needle.
Rory’s Kissing School 7| Cormac O’Leary 29
Reading a Dime Novel 8|Why she was Salted 29
Paddy ye Rascal 9|More Coyness 30
Uncle Peter’s Counsel to the |A Costly Beverage 30
Newly Married. Edmund Kirke 9|Smoking his First Cigar 30
Bravest of the Brave. |The Mosquito Adjured 31
R. J. Burdette 10|She was a Shaker 32
A Wail of Toe 10|The Bicycle and the Pup 32
Mine Shildren. |The Mutilated Currency Question 32
Charles Follen Adams 10|Carl Dunder Talks to the
The Cultured Daughter of a | Children 33
Plain Grocer 11|Business and Gambling 34
Kelly at the Bat 12|Fate 34
“De ’Lection fer Jedge.” |Some Simple Says 34
Unk’l Isam 13|The Girl-Shooter 34
What is Done at Saratoga. |About Bores. Alexander E. Sweet 35
By John G. Saxe 14|Hamlet to his Mother 36
When Greek meets Greek. Anon. 15|Quit your Foolin’ 37
Rules for Husbands 15|The Necktie 37
Rules for Wives 16|A Leadville Sermon on the
Hustler Joe 16| “Prod.” 37
Coming Home. |How they Said Good-Night 38
Hugh Willoughby Sweeney 17|Uncle Moses and the Comet.
The Minstrels of the Night 18| Ruth Argyle 39
Baggage-Master Brick’s Lunch |His Heart was True to Poll 40
Can 18|Pat’s Love. By Joe Jot, Jr. 41
Short Summer Sermons. |The Montgomery Guard 42
By Bro. Gardner 19|Too Many for Him 42
In Holland. Eugene Field 19|Method in It 43
The Soft Guitar. P. F. Bowne 20|His Guileless Look.
He Led his Class 20| Thomas Holmes 42
“Human Natur’.” |Our Minister’s Sermon 44
By Bro. Gardner 21|Aunt Sophronia Tabor at the
Shoo 21| Opera 44
The New Lochinvar 22|A Street Gamin’s Story of the
The Banana Peel 23| Play. Anonymous 46
“Der Kicker und der Krank.” |The Country Store. Nathan
Emile Pickhardt 23| D. Urner 47
Uncle Pete and Marse George. |The Printer’s Revenge 48
Anon. 23|The Father to his Boy 48