Select Readings and Recitations

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Baby is Dead, The, Emma Alice Brown,

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Back Log Study, Chas. Dudley Warner,
Battle of Ivry, The, Macaulay,.

Beautiful Grandmamma,

Battle of Life, The, S. Olin,

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'Biah Cathcart's Proposal, H. W. Beecher,

Bill Nye on Hornets,

Billy, He's in Trouble,

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Bravest Battle that Ever Was Fought, The, Joaquin

Miller,

Bugle Song, Alfred Tennyson,

Bunting, A Piece of, F. W. Palmer,

By a City Grate, Donald G. Mitchell (Ik. Marvel),

Carrying a Light, Ella C. Eckert,

Charity, James Clarence Harvey,

Child's Hymn for the Close of the Week, A, James Hogg, 71

David's Lament over Absalom, N. P. Willis,

Dead March, The, Mary T. Lathrop, .

Deaf as a Post,

Death-bed of Benedict Arnold, George Lippard,

Departure of Marmion, Sir Walter Scott,

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Eagle's Flight, An, H. Bedinger,

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Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, An, Oliver Goldsmith, 54

Elocution, N. H. Gillespie,

Emir Hassan, William Cullen Bryant, .

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, An, Bulwer,

Falls of Lodore, The, Robert Southey, .

Farewell Address to the People of the United States,

Washington,

Fire! Fire! W. A. Eaton,

Flight of Youth, The, Richard H. Stoddard,

Foolish Little Maiden, A,

Forever, John Boyle O'Reilly,

Forgetfulness, James Clarence Harvey,

Found But Once in a While, Cooper, .

Fretful Man, The, William Cowper,

General Grant to the Army, 1865, Ulysses S. Grant,

Getting Ready for Meetin', Sarah McLane Greene,

Girls from a Boy's Point of View,

Give Me The Hand, Goodman Barnaby,

Goin' Home To-Day, Will Carleton,

Goin' Home to Mary, Frank L. Stanton,

Government, Daniel Webster,

Hanthem, The,.

Hezekiah Bedott, F. M. Whitcher,

Hint, A,

His Mother's Cooking, Lizzie M. Hadley,

Horse Auctioneer, The,

Horse Car Incident, A, B. P. Shillaber,

How Father Carves the Duck,.

How He Saved St. Michael's, .

How Jimmy Tended the Baby,

Husband's Experience in Cooking, A,

Imitation, .

Indian Serenade, The, Shelley,

Influence After Death, John Cumming,

Italian's Views on the Labor Question, An, Joe Kerr,

Jim Bludso, John Hay,

Jimmy Brown's Attempt to Produce Freckles,

Josh Billings on "Gongs," H. G. Shaw,

Katydid, Oliver Wendell Holmes,

Kissed His Mother, Eben E. Rexford,

Labor, Thomas Carlyle,

Land of Thus-and-So, The, James Whitcomb Riley,

Life Thought, A, Henry Ward Beecher,

Life, James Clarence Harvey,

Life Lesson. A, James Whitcomb Riley,

Little Johnnie's "Piece" on Owls,

Lucy Gray, Wordsworth, .

Man Who Apologized, The,

Mills of God, The, Duganne,

Miss Maloney on the Chinese Question, Mary Mapes

Napoleon Bonaparte, Chas. Phillips,

Nations and Humanity, George W. Curtis,

Nature of True Eloquence, The, Daniel Webster,

New Year Ledger, The, Amelia E. Barr,

Night with a Wolf, A, Bayard Taylor,

Ode for Decoration Day, Henry Peterson,

Old Man, The, Eugene Field,

Old Uncle Ben, Charles Frederick Goss,

Our Lives,

Overboard! Edith Elmer.

Owl Critic, The, James T. Field,

Panther, The, Leigh Hunt,.

Peter Sorghum in Love, Alf. Burnett,

Picture of Domestic Love, Campbell, .

Pilgrims, The, Chauncey M. Depew, .

Poetry of Science, The, Herbert Spencer,

Progress, N. Michell, .

Public Opinion, Canon Farrar,

Puzzled, Annie Trumbull Slosson,

Reply of Mr. Pitt to Horace Walpole,

Reverie, A, Donald G. Mitchell (Ik. Marvel),

Rill from the Town Pump, A, Nathaniel Hawthorne,

Rover in Church, James Buckham,

Sabbath Eve,

St. Nick's Dilemma, James Clarence Harvey,

Sam Lawson's Sayings, Mrs. Stowe,

Seein' Things, Eugene Field,

Sermons, John Ruskin,

Ship of Faith, The, .

Showman on the Woodchuck, A,

Sincerity the Soul of Eloquence, Goethe,

Sleep, Elizabeth Barrett Browning,

Song, Walter Scott..

Song of Marion's Men, William Cullen Bryant,

Song of the Camp, The, Bayard Taylor, .

Song of the Market Place, The, James Buckham,

Song of the Sand Man, The, James Clarence Harvey,

Sorrow for the Dead, Washington Irving,

Spring, H. W. Longfellow,.

Steamboat Race, The, Mark Twain,

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Thoughts for Young Men, Horace Mann,

Town of Used-to-Be, The,

Toy of the Giant's Child, The, Translated from the

German by G. F. Richardson,

Traitor Sea, The, C. J. Corrie,

Twilight at Nazareth, Joaquin Miller,

Unbeliever, The, Dr. Chalmers,

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Uncle Pete's Counsel to the Newly Married, Edmund
Kirke, .

Uncle Silas on Microbes, James Clarence Harvey,

Value of Literature, The, Hamilton W. Mabie,

Washington, Thomas Jefferson,

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We Shall Know, Annie Herbert,

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What a Thirty Ton Hammer Can Do,

What is Poetry? Leigh Hunt,

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What Men Have Not Fought For, R. J. Burdette,

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When I Have Time,

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When Jim Was Dead, F. L. Stanton,

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When Mary Winds the Clock, James Buckham,

Where's Mother?

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Widow Malone, Charles Lever,

Wings of a Dove, Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D. D.,

Wishing and Having, R. H. Stoddard,.

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Wonders of the English Language, Thomas Blaine,

World Reformer and His Wife, The, Sam Walter Foss,

Youth and Age, Susan Coolidge,

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