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Various. Humorous Readings and Recitations, in Prose and Verse
Humorous Readings and Recitations, in Prose and Verse
Table of Contents
PREFACE
HUMOROUS READINGS
AND. RECITATIONS
ACCOMPANIED ON THE FLUTE
F. Anstey
THE TROUBLES OF A TRIPLET
W. Beatty-Kingston
SLIGHTLY DEAF
Bracebridge Hemming
THE LADY FREEMASON
H. T. Craven
Moral
WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT!
From the French of M. Charles Monselet, by F. B. Harrison
THE FATAL LEGS
Walter Browne
THE CALIPH'S JESTER
(FROM THE ARABIC.)
A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF NOTHING
Wilkie Collins
GEMINI AND VIRGO
C. S. Calverley
KING BIBBS
James Albery
MOLLY MULDOON
Anonymous
THE HARMONIOUS LOBSTERS
Robert Reece
THE PROVINCIAL LANDLADY
H. Chance Newton
MY MATRIMONIAL PREDICAMENT
Leopold Wagner
ETIQUETTE
W. S. Gilbert
A LOST SHEPHERD
Frank Barrett
A MATHEMATIC MADNESS
F. P. Dempster
WAITING AT TOTTLEPOT
J. Ashby-Sterry
MARRIED TO A GIANTESS
Walter Parke
THE VISION OF THE ALDERMAN
Henry S. Leigh
THE DEMON SNUFFERS
Geo. Manville Fenn
THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER
Lewis Carroll
MY BROTHER HENRY
J. M. Barrie
A NIGHT WITH A STORK
W. E. Wilcox
THE FAITHFUL LOVERS
F. C. Burnand
THE WAIL OF A BANNER-BEARER
Arthur Matthison
THE DREAM OF THE BILIOUS BEADLE
Arthur Shirley
MY FRIEND TREACLE
Watkin-Elliott
THE VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD
Anonymous
ARTEMUS WARD'S VISIT TO THE TOWER OF LONDON
Ch. Farrar Browne
MR. CAUDLE HAS LENT AN ACQUAINTANCE THE FAMILY UMBRELLA
Douglas Jerrold
DOMESTIC ASIDES
Tom Hood
THE CHARITY DINNER
Litchfield Moseley
ACTING WITH A VENGEANCE
W. Sapte, Jun
MY FORTNIGHT AT WRETCHEDVILLE
George Augustus Sala
THE SORROWS OF WERTHER
W. M. Thackeray
MORAL MUSIC
(By An Experimenter.)
BILLY DUMPS, THE TAILOR
Charles Clark
ON PUNNING
Theodore Hook
SEASIDE LODGINGS
Percy Reeve
