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SERIOUS, HUMOROUS, PATHETIC, PATRIOTIC,
AND DRAMATIC SELECTIONS IN
PROSE AND POETRY
FOR
READINGS AND RECITATIONS
_EDITED BY_
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WALTER H. BAKER & CO.
1909
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Contents
PART I
“Bay Billy” _Frank H. Gassaway_ 98
Because _Boston Transcript_ 33
The Book Canvasser 78
Casabianca (Colored) 43
A Centre-board Yacht-race _George A. Stockwell_ 67
The Christening _E. T. Corbett_ 37
The Coming Wave _Oliver Optic_ 82
Counting Eggs _Texas Siftings_ 64
Cut, Cut Behind _Charles Follen Adams_ 45
The Deacon’s Ride _Mary C. Huntington_ 59
The Death of D’Assas _Mary E. Vandyne_ 24
Decoration Day _Mary Bassett Hussey_ 54
The Driver of Ninety-three _Sarah K. Bolton_ 8
The Engineer’s Story _Eugene J. Hall_ 81
The Fall _Thomas Hood_ 66
Filling His Place _Maria L. Eve_ 40
The Flag _James Jeffrey Roche_ 32
The Heritage _James Russell Lowell_ 42
Hiring Help _Mrs. S. E. Dawes_ 102
The House in the Meadow _Louise Chandler Moulton_ 15
How the Ransom was Paid _W. R. Rose_ 10
Jem’s Last Ride _Mary A. P. Stansbury_ 88
The Labor Question _Wendell Phillips_ 29
The Light from Over the
Range 5
A Little Peach 17
A Lost Child _Anna F. Burnham_ 86
Love and Philosophy _Geo. Runde Jackson_ 30
Malaria 74
Mary’s Lamb on a New
Principle 44
The Man with the Musket _H. S. Taylor_ 27
Metamora to the Council 9
Missing 53
The Mississippi Miracle _Irwin Russell_ 70
Mr. Pickwick’s Romantic
Adventure with a
Middle-aged Lady in
Yellow Curl-Papers _Dickens_ 18
Over the Crossin’ _Springfield Republican_ 92
Puzzled 76
The Rajah’s Clock _Theron Brown_ 57
Re-enlisted _Lucy Larcom_ 11
Scene from “Ion” _Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd_ 46
She Stood on the Stair _Puck_ 13
The Silver Bell _Mrs. Julia D. Pratt_ 63
Somehow or Other 94
The Story of Sir Arnulph _Gerald Massey_ 85
Taters _W. O. Eaton_ 96
Together on the Stairs _Andrew G. Tubbs_ 35
A Tough Customer _William L. Keese_ 28
“An Unknown Man, Respectably
Dressed” _Helen Jackson_ 97
The Village Choir _Audre’s Journal_ 39
Wendell Phillips _John Boyle O’Reilly_ 72
When Greek met Greek 56
When McGue puts the
Baby to Sleep 87