Poison: A Farce

Part 3

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The Rescue _John Brownjohn._ The Pickwickians on Ice _Dickens._ A Picture _Mrs. H. A. Bingham._ Tobe’s Monument _Elizabeth Kilham._ The Two Anchors _R. H. Stoddard._ The Old Ways and the New _John H. Yates._ By the Alma River _Miss Muloch._ Trial Scene from “Merchant of Venice” _Shakspeare._ The Sisters _John G. Whittier._ Farm-Yard Song The Fortune-Hunter _John G. Saxe._ Curing a Cold _Mark Twain._ In the Bottom Drawer Two Irish Idyls _Alfred Perceval Graves._ Over the River _Priest._ The Modest Cousin _Sheridan Knowles._ Biddy’s Troubles The Man with a Cold in his Head Harry and I The Shadow on the Wall The Little Puzzler _Sarah M. B. Piatt._ A Traveller’s Evening Song _Mrs. Hemans._ Calling a Boy in the Morning Cooking and Courting _Tom to Ned._ A Tragical Tale of the Tropics The Paddock Elms _B. E. Woolf._ The Bobolink _Aldine._ Toothache The Opening of the Piano _Atlantic Monthly._ Press On _Park Benjamin._ The Beauty of Youth _Theodore Parker._ Queen Mab _Romeo and Juliet._ A Militia General _Thomas Corwin._ Address of Spottycus Our Visitor, and what he came for “What’s the Matter with that Nose?” _Our Fat Contributor._ Workers and Thinkers _Ruskin._ The Last Ride _Nora Perry._ Baby Atlas Possession _Owen Meredith._ There is no Death _Sir E. Bulwer Lytton._ The Learned Negro _Congregationalist._ Nearer, my God, to Thee _Sarah F. Adams._ A Short Sermon _Not by a Hard-Shell Baptist._ Goin’ Home To-day _W. M. Carleton._ The Broken Pitcher _Anonymous._ A Baby’s Soliloquy The Double Sacrifice _Arthur William Austin._ Sunday Morning _George A. Baker, jun._ The Quaker Meeting _Samuel Lover._

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