Humorous Hits and How to Hold an Audience A Collection of Short Selections, Stories and Sketches for All Occasions

PART III--SERIOUS HITS

Chapter 3151 wordsPublic domain

IF WE HAD THE TIME _Richard Burton_ 267

THE FOOL'S PRAYER _Edward Rowland Sill_ 268

THE EVE OF WATERLOO _Byron_ 269

THE WRECK OF THE JULIE PLANTE _W. H. Drummond_ 271

FATHER'S WAY _Eugene Field_ 272

I AM CONTENT _Carmen Sylva Translation_ 274

THE EAGLE'S SONG _Richard Mansfield_ 275

BREAK, BREAK, BREAK _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_ 277

VIRGINIUS _Macaulay_ 277

THE WOMEN OF MUMBLES HEAD _Clement Scott_ 279

WILLIAM TELL AND HIS BOY _William Baine_ 282

LASCA _F. Desprez_ 284

THE VOLUNTEER ORGANIST _S. W. Foss_ 287

LIFE COMPARED TO A GAME OF CARDS _Anonymous_ 289

OLD DADDY TURNER " 290

THE TRAMP " 292

THE DANDY FIFTH _F. H. Gassaway_ 293

ON LINCOLN _Walt Whitman_ 296

THE LITTLE STOWAWAY _Anonymous_ 296

SAINT CRISPIAN'S DAY _Shakespeare_ 299

THE C'RRECT CARD _George R. Sims_ 300

THE ENGINEER'S STORY _Rosa H. Thorpe_ 303

THE FACE UPON THE FLOOR _H. Antoine D'Arcy_ 306

THE FUNERAL OF THE FLOWERS _T. De Witt Talmage_ 309

CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON IMMORTALITY _Joseph Addison_ 311

OPPORTUNITY _John J. Ingalls_ 312

OPPORTUNITY'S REPLY _Walter Malone_ 312

THE EARL-KING _Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe_ 313

CARCASSONNE _M. E. W. Sherwood_ 314

THE MUSICIANS _Anonymous_ 315

ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK " 317

COMO _Joaquin Miller_ 319

AUX ITALIENS _Owen Meredith_ 322