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The Frenchman's Dilemma; or, Number Five Collect Street. The Frenchman's Revenge. Noozell and the Organ Grinder. How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull. Mr. Rogers and Monsieur Denise. The Frenchman and the Landlord. The Frenchman and the Sheep's Trotters. A Frenchman's Account of the Fall. I Vant to Fly. The Generous Frenchman. The Frenchman and the Flea Powder. The Frenchman and the Rats. Monsieur Tonson. Vat You Please. The Frenchman and the Mosquitoes. The Frenchman's Patent Screw. The Frenchman's Mistake. Monsieur Mocquard Between Two Fires.

YANKEE DIALECT.

Mrs. Bean's Courtship. Hez and the Landlord. Squire Billings' Pickerel. Deacon Thrush in Meeting. The Yankee Fireside. Peter Sorghum in Love. Mrs. Smart Learns how to Skate. Capt. Hurricane Jones on the Miracles. The Dutchman and the Yankee. The Yankee Landlord. The Bewitched Clock. The Yankee and the Dutchman's Dog. Aunt Hetty on Matrimony. The Courtin'. Ebenezer on a Bust. Sut Lovingood's Shirt.

This Collection contains all the best dialect pieces that are incidentally scattered through a large number of volumes of "Recitations and Readings," besides new and excellent sketches never before published.

170 pages, paper cover ~30 cts.~ Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~

~Dick's Irish Dialect Recitations.~ A carefully compiled Collection of Rare Irish Stories, Comic, Poetical and Prose Recitations, Humorous Letters and Funny Recitals, all told with the irresistible Humor of the Irish dialect. Containing

Biddy's Troubles. Birth of St. Patrick, The. Bridget O'Hoolegoin's Letter. Connor. Dermot O'Dowd. Dick Macnamara's Matrimonial Adventures. Dying Confession of Paddy M'Cabe. Father Molloy. Father Phil Blake's Collection. Father Roach. Fight of Hell-Kettle, The. Handy Andy's Little Mistakes. How Dennis Took the Pledge. How Pat Saved his Bacon. Irish Astronomy. Irish Coquetry. Irish Drummer, The. Irish Letter, An. Irish Philosopher, The. Irish Traveler, The. Irishman's Panorama, The. Jimmy McBride's Letter. Jimmy Butler and the Owl. King O'Toole and St. Kevin. Kitty Malone. Love in the Kitchen. Micky Free and the Priest. Miss Malony on the Chinese Question. Mr. O'Hoolahan's Mistake. Paddy Blake's Echo. Paddy Fagan's Pedigree. Paddy McGrath and the Bear. Paddy O'Rafther. Paddy the Piper. Paddy's Dream. Pat and the Fox. Pat and the Gridiron. Pat and his Musket. Pat and the Oysters. Pat's Criticism. Pat's Letter. Pat O'Flanigan's Colt. Patrick O'Rouke and the Frogs. Paudeen O'Rafferty's Say Voyage. Peter Mulrooney and the Black Filly. Phaidrig Crohoore. Rory O'More's Present to the Priest. St. Kevin. Teddy O'Toole's Six Bulls. Wake of Tim O'Hara, The. Widow Cummiskey, The.

This Collection contains, in addition to new and original pieces, all the very best Recitations in the Irish dialect that can be gathered from a whole library of "Recitation" books. It is full of sparkling witticisms and it furnishes also a fund of entertaining matter for perusal in leisure moments.

170 pages, paper cover ~30 cts.~ Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~

~Tambo's End-Men's Minstrel Gags.~ Containing some of the best Jokes and Repartees of the most celebrated "burnt cork" performers of our day. Tambo and Bones in all sorts and manner of scrapes. This Book is full of Burnt-Cork Drolleries, Funny Stories, Colored Conundrums, Gags and Witty Repartee, all the newest side-splitting conversations between Tambo, Bones, and the Interlocutor, and will be found useful alike to the professional and amateur performer. Contents:

A Bird that can't be Plucked Annihilating Time At Last Bashful Bet, The Big Fortune, A Blackberrying Black Swan, The Bones and his little Game Bones and the Monkey Tricks Bones as a Fortune Teller Bones as a Legitimate Actor Bones as a Pilot Bones as a Prize Fighter Bones as a "Stugent" Bones as a Traveler Bones as a Victim to the Pen Bones as a Walkist Bones assists at the Performance of a New Piece Bones attends a Seance Bones finds Himself Famous Bones gets Dunned Bones gets Stuck Bones has a Small Game with the Parson Bones' Horse Race Bones in an Affair of Honor Bones In Love Bones keeps a Boarding House Bones on the War Path Bones on George Washington Bones on the Light Fantastic Bones Opens a Spout Shop Bones Plays O'Fella Bones sees a Ghost Bones Slopes with Sukey Sly Bones tells a "Fly" Story Brother will come home tonight Bones as a Carpet Bagger Bones as an Inkslinger Bones in a New Character Bones in Clover Bones' Love Scrape "Cullud" Ball, The Conundrums Curious Boy Dancing Mad Dat's What I'd Like to Know Definitions De Mudder of Inwention Difference, The Don't Kiss every Puppy "Far Away in Alabam'" First White Man, The Fishy Argument Four-Eleven-Forty-Four Four Meetings, The From the Polks Girl at the Sewing Machine Hard Times Hard to take a Hint Heavy Spell, A Highfalutin' Horrible! How Bones became a Minstrel How Tambo took his Bitters How to do it Impulsive Oration Inquisitive Jeallusest of her Sect Legal Problem, A Liberal Discount for Cash Manager in a Fix, The Mathematics Merry Life, A Momentous Question Mosquitoes Music Notes Ob Course Our Shop Girls Pomp and Ephy Green Presidency on de Brain Proposed Increase of Taxes Railroad Catastrophe Reality versus Romance Rough on Tambo Sassy Sam and Susie Long School's In Shakespeare with a Vengeance Simple Sum in Arithmetic Sleighing in the Park Sliding Down the Hill Style Sublime Swearing by Proxy Tambo's Traveling Agent That Dear Old Home "The Pervisions, Jostar" Thieves Tonsorial Toast, A Uncle Eph's Lament Waiting to See Him Off You Bet And 40 popular songs and dances.

Everything new and rich. Paper covers ~30 cts.~ Bound in boards, with cloth back ~50 cts.~

~McBride's Comic Speeches and Recitations.~ Designed for Schools, Literary and Social Circles. By H. Elliott McBride, Author of "McBride's Humorous Dialogues," etc., etc. This is one of the very best series of original speeches, in Yankee, Darkey, Spread-Eagle and village styles, with a number of diverting addresses and recitations, and funny stories, forming an excellent volume of selections for supplying the humorous element of an exhibition. Contents:

A Burst of Indignation Disco'se by a Colored Man A Trumpet Sarmon Sarmon on Skilletvillers Nancy Matilda Jones Hezekiah's Proposal About the Billikinses Betsy and I are Out Once More A Stump Speech About Katharine Deborah Doolittle's Speech on Women's Rights A Salutatory A Mournful Story An Address to Schoolboys Zachariah Popp's Courtship and Marriage A Sad Story How to Make Hasty Pudding My Matilda Jane Courtship, Marriage, Separation and Reunion Lecture by a Yankee A Colored Man's Disco'se on Different Subjects A Girl's Address to Boys McSwinger's Fate Peter Peabody's Stump Speech Mr. Styx Rejoices on Account of a New Well Spring Victuals and Drink Speech by Billy Higgins on the Destruction of His Rambo Apple Tree A Boy's Address to Young Ladies An Old Man's Address to Young Wives Salu-ta-tat-n-a-ry Valedictory.

Paper covers, illuminated ~30 cts.~ Board covers, illuminated ~50 cts.~

~Beecher's Recitations and Readings.~ Humorous, Serious, Dramatic. Designed for Public and Private Exhibitions. Contents:

Miss Maloney at the Dentist's Lost and Found Mygel Snyder's Barty Magdalena Jim Wolfe and the Cats The Woolen Doll The Charity Dinner Go-Morrow or, Lot's Wife The Wind and the Moon Dyin' Words of Isaac Maude Muller in Dutch Moses the Sassy Yarn of the "Nancy Bell" Paddy the Piper Schneider sees "Leah" Caldwell of Springfield Artemus Ward's Panorama Tale of a Servant Girl How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull Tiamondts on der Prain King Robert of Sicily Gloverson the Mormon De Pint wid Ole Pete Pat and the Pig The Widow Bedott's Letter The Cry of the Children The Dutchman and the Small-pox Sculpin Rats--Descriptive Recitation A Reader Introduces Himself to an Audience A Dutchman's Dolly Varden "Rock of Ages" Feeding the Black Fillies The Hornet The Glove and the Lions I Vant to Fly That Dog of Jim Smiley's The Faithful Soul "My New Pittayatees" Mary Ann's Wedding An Inquiring Yankee The Three Bells Love in a Balloon Mrs. Brown on the Streets Shoo Flies Discourse by the Rev. Mr. Bosan Without the Children Signor Billsmethi's Dancing Academy Der Goot Lookin Shnow The Jumping Frog The Lost Chord The Tale of a Leg That West-side Dog How Dennis Took the Pledge The Fisherman's Summons Badger's Debut as Hamlet Hezekiah Stole the Spoons Paddy's Dream Victuals and Drink How Jake Schneider Went Blind Aurelia's Young Man Mrs. Brown on Modern Houses Farm Yard Song Murphy's Pork Barrel The Prayer Seeker An Extraordinary Phenomenon The Case of Young Bangs A Mule Ride in Florida Dhree Shkaders

Paper covers. Price ~30 cts.~ Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~

~Dick's Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches.~ Containing the following Rich Collection of Negro Dialogues, Scenes, Farces, End-Men's Jokes, Gags, Rollicking Stories, Excruciating Conundrums, Questions and Answers for Bones, Tambo and Interlocutor, etc. Contents:

I's Gwine to Jine de Masons Jes' Nail dat Mink to de Stable Do'--Oration But the Villain still Pursued Her--A Thrilling Tale Bones at a Free-and-Easy Buncombe Speech Shakespeare Improved End Gag--Bones and Tambo A Man of Nerve--Comic Sketch End Gag--Bones and Tambo Uncle Pete--Darkey Sketch The Rival Darkeys The Stage-Struck Darkey Add Ryman's Fourth of July Oration Absent-Mindedness--Bones and Tambo Don't Call a Man a Liar The Mysterious Darkey Rev Uncle Jim's Sermon The 'Possum-Run Debating Society Tim Murphy's Irish Stew Brudder Bones in Love--Interlocutor and Bones 'Lixey: or, The Old Gum Game--Negro Scene Brudder Bones' Duel Brudder Bones' Sweetheart Brudder Bones in Hard Luck Two Left-Bones and Tambo Speech on Boils How Bones Cured a Smoky Chimney Sermon on Keards, Hosses, Fiddlers, etc. Huggin' Lamp-Posts Not Opposed to Matrimony How Pat Sold a Dutchman The Coopers--one Act Farce Questions Easily Answered--Bones and Tambo Examination in Natural History--Minstrel Dialogue O'Quirk's Sinecure The Widower's Speech Bones at a Raffle Uncle Pete's Sermon Bones at a Soiree--Interlocutor and Bones Speech on Woman's Rights Bones' Discovery Mark Twain Introduces Himself--Characteristic Speech Speech on Happiness Burnt Corkers--Minstrel Dialogue The Nervous Woman The Five Senses--Minstrel Dialogue The Dutchman's Experience Essay on the Wheelbarrow Bones at a Pic-Nic The Virginia Mummy--Negro Farce Brudder Bones in Clover Artemus Ward's Advice to Husbands Where the Lion Roareth, and the Wang-Doodle Mourneth Romeo and Juliet in 1880 Artemus Ward's Panorama Brudder Bones as a Carpet-Bagger--Interlocutor and Bones Major Jones' Fourth of July Oration Curiosities for a Museum--Minstrel Dialogue Burlesque Oration on Matrimony Brudder Bones on the Raging Canawl The Snackin'-Turtle Man--Ethiopian Sketch Bones' Dream--Ethiopian Sketch Come and Hug Me Widow O'Brien's Toast Scenes at the Police Court--Musical Minstrel Dialogue Brudder Bones as a Log-Roller De Pint Wid Old Pete--Negro Dialect Recitation A Touching Appeal--Dutch Dialect Recitation Wounded in the Corners Darkey Dialogue End Gag--Interlocutor and Bones

178 pages, paper covers ~30 cts.~ Bound in board, cloth back ~50 cts.~

~Kavanaugh's New Speeches and Dialogues for Young Children.~ Containing easy pieces in plain language, readily understood by little children, and expressly adapted for School Exhibitions and Christmas and other juvenile celebrations. By Mrs. Russell Kavanaugh. This is an entirely new series of Recitations and Dialogues by this author, and full of pieces, in her well-known style of familiar simplicity, admirably calculated to give the little ones additional opportunities to distinguish themselves before an audience. It contains the following:

|Girls.|Boys. Introduction | | Opening Speech | | 1 Speech for a School Exhibition | | 1 The Parcæ (The Fates) | 3 | Which Would You Rather Be? | 6 | Speech for a Tiny Girl | 1 | An Old Story, for a Child | | Speech for a Boy | | 1 A Sudden Revulsion | | Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus. A Novel Christmas Festival | | 2 May Celebration | 8 | 3 Speech of Crowner | 1 | Speech of Sceptre-Bearer | 1 | Speech of Fun | 1 | Speech of Frolic | 1 | Speech of Vanity | 1 | Speech of Modesty | 1 | Speech of Beauty | 1 | Speech of Jollity | | 1 Speech of Boot-Black | | 1 Speech of News-Boy | | 1 Speech of May Queen | 1 | The Tables Turned, for a Child | | Speech for a Boy | | 1 Speech for a Small Boy | | 1 Speech for a Very Little Boy | | 1 The Farmer Boy and the City Dude | | 2 The Small Boy | 1 | Transposed | 1 | The Sun and His Satellites | 7 | Speech of the Sun | 1 | Speech of the Moon | 1 | Speech of Mercury | 1 | Speech of Mars | 1 | Speech of Jupiter | 1 | Speech of Saturn | 1 | Speech of Venus | 1 | True Happiness | | 1 Genius and Application | 2 | Five Versus Twenty-five | | 1 Saved from Suicide | | 1 Speech for a Very Small Child | | Three Enigmas | 3 | Tickle his Hand with a Ten Dollar Bill | | 1 Speech for a Small Boy | | 1 Beautiful Belles, for several Girls | | Beautiful Dudes, for several Boys | | Four Little Rose-Buds | 4 | A Bouquet | 12 | Ta! Ta! | | 1 Speech for a Very Little Girl | 1 | Speech for a Very Little Boy | | 1 Blood Will Tell | | 1 A Warning | | 1 A Race for Life | | 1 "He is a Brick" | | 1 Speech for a Small Boy | | 1 Watching | 1 | Gold | | 1 A Touching Incident | | 1 Buy a Broom, for several Girls | | Confusion Worse Confounded | | 1 A Relentless Tyrant, for a Child | | My Brother Jean | 1 | The Gratitude of the World | | At the Skating Rink | | 1 Dimes! Oh, Dimes! | | 1 A Fatal Bait, for a Child | | The Decorated Donkey, for a Child | | Tight Times | | 1 The Reason Why | | A Modern Flirtation | | Country Meeting Talk | | 1 Speech | | 1 Deeds of Kindness | | The Boy's Complaint | | 1 What Not to Do | | Temperance Address | | 1 The Quarrelsome Boy | | 1 An Awful Fly, for a Little One | | Content | 1 | The Winds of the Prairie | | Santa Claus' Christmas Tree Speech | | 1 The Creator | | Where Did They Go | 1 | The Parting Lovers | 1 | Do Your Best | | 1 Cherish Kindly Feelings | | Advice to Boys | 1 | I Wish I Was a Grown-up | | 1 No Time Like the Present | | The Boys We Need | | 1 Summer Vacation | 1 | | | MUSIC. | | | | Three Bright Stars | | Beautiful Belles | | Buy a Broom | |

16mo., Illuminated Paper Cover ~30 cts.~ Boards ~50 cts.~

~Howard's Recitations.~ Comic, Serious and Pathetic. Collection of fresh Recitations in Prose and Poetry, suitable for Anniversaries, Exhibitions, Social Gatherings, and Evening Parties. Contents:

Miss Malony on the Chinese Question Kit Carson's Ride Buck Fanshaw's Funeral Knocked About Puzzled Dutchman Shamus O'Brien Naughty Little Girl Bells of Shandon No Sect in Heaven Rory O'Moore's Present "Mother's Fool" Queen Elizabeth--a Comic Oration The Starling Lord Dundreary's Riddle The Stuttering Lass The Irish Traveler The Remedy as Bad as the Disease A Subject for Dissection The Heathen Chinee Mona's Waters A Showman on the Woodchuck How Happy I'll Be A Frenchman's Account of the Fall Isabel's Grave Parson and the Spaniel An Irishman's Letter Irish Letter The Halibut in Love The Merry Soap-Boiler The Unbeliever The Voices at the Throne Dundreary Proposing The Fireman Paul Revere's Ride Annie and Willie's Prayer A Frenchman on Macbeth The New Church Organ Katrina Likes me Poody Vell How to Save a Thousand Pounds How I Got Invited to Dinner Patient Joe Jimmy Butler and the Owl The Menagerie Old Quizzle Infidel and Quaker The Lawyer and the Chimney-Sweeper Bill Mason's Bride Judging by Appearances The Death's Head Betsey and I are Out Betsey Destroys the Paper Father Blake's Collection Blank Verse in Rhyme Roguery Taught Banty Tim Antony and Cleopatra Deacon Hezekiah The Frenchman and the Landlord The Family Quarrel--A Dialogue on the Sixteenth Amendment The Guess Atheist and Acorn Brother Watkins Hans in a Fix To-Morrow The Highgate Butcher The Lucky Call Challenging the Foreman Country Schoolmaster The Matrimonial Bugs and the Travelers Peter Sorghum in Love Tim Tuff Nick Van Stann The Debating Society Deacon Stokes To Our Honored Dead The Dying Soldier The Yankee Fireside The Suicidal Cat The Son's Wish

16 mo. 180 pages. Paper covers. Price ~30 cts.~ Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~

~Spencer's Book of Comic Speeches and Humorous Recitations.~ A collection of Comic Speeches and Dialogues, Dramatic Scenes and Characteristic Soliloquies and Stories Suitable for School Exhibitions. Contents: