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A Day. By John G. Whittier 7
A Keeper’s Story. By Ethel Lynn 21
An Empty Nest. By Mary A. Barr 30
Advice to Boys 34
A Tramp’s Philosophy 37
Cæsar Passing the Rubicon. By J. Sheridan Knowles 5
Confession of a Drunkard 6
Courage, Boy, Courage! 17
Character of Napoleon. By Lamartine 38
Do Not Rust Out 24
England. By Charles Mackay 19
Even This Shall Pass Away 32
En Voyage 38
Education. By Schuyler Colfax 47
Fancy or Fact. By James Russell Lowell 6
Great Lives Imperishable. Edward Everett 19
How Riches are to be Measured 18
If We Knew 10
In Scotia Dear 35
Liberty. By Frank E. Brush 20
Little Jim. George R. Sims 25
Live for Good. Rev. J. J. Case 31
Logan at Atlanta 36
Malibran and the Young Musician 12
My Portion 39
Napoleon the Little. Hugo 25
Night Before the Execution. Mary E. Bryan 45
Our Ships 8
Opposite Examples. Horace Mann 23
On Planting the Pear-tree. By Rev. Edward Hopper, D.D. 42
Resolution 34
Success. By B. F. Taylor 7
Spike that Gun 10
Saved. By Jennie Joy 44
The Cane-Bottomed Chair. W. M. Thackeray 8
The Cavalry Charge. By E. C. Stedman 5
The Missing Ship. By John B. Gough 9
The Burial of Chatham. Macaulay 15
The Hindu King’s Reply to the Missionary. Alfred C. Lyall 15
The Country’s Greatest Evil 16
The Pythian Flag up North 18
The Windy Night. By Thomas B. Reed 24
To Her. By Victor Hugo 25
The Phantom Wreck. Nathan D. Urner 26
The Shepherd of the People. Rev. P. Brooks 27
True Fame. By Jay 28
The Open Door 29
The American Indian. By Charles Sprague 29
The Trapper’s Last Trail. Madge Morris 31
The Two Lives 32
The Sabbath 32
The World from the Sidewalk 33
The Duellist’s Honor. By Bishop England 36
Trust in God, and do the Right. N. McLeod 40
The Miner’s Luck. J. W. Donovan 40
The Old School-house 41
The True Source of Reform. E. H. Chapin 42
The Cry of the Dreamer. John B. O’Reilly 43
The Lover’s Leap 46
The Bartholdi Statue. By John G. Whittier 48
Vanitas. Charles M. Harger 27
Whiskey in its Place 11
Who are the Free. By John C. Prince 21

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The Idyl of Battle Hollow. Bret Harte 3
How Tommy Went to Sea. Colonel Tom Ochiltree 4
The Martyrs of Sandom’r. M. Capel 6
Pike’s Peak. Eugene Field 7
Alone. Robert J. Burdette 8
Ingratitude Towards the Deity. Appleton 8
Legend of the Crossing Sweeper 9
Sergeant Jasper at Fort Moultrie. Louise Imogen Guiney 10
The Reveille 11
The Stoning of the Magdalen. F. E. Pratt 11
State’s Evidence. Margaret Cavendish 13
Mother’s Slipper 13
The Cradle Rocked. H. S. Keller 14
The Old Class Room 15
In the Dakota Blizzard. John Paul Bocock 16
Langsyne. D. M. Moir 17
Mrs. Grundy 18
The Baby and the Soldier 19
“Clear the Way.” Camilla Crosland 20
Wolfe Tone aboard the Hoche. David G. Adee 21
My Old Vag. M. Quad 21
Nobody Knows but Father. H. C. Dodge 23
The Brave at Home. T. Buchanan Read 23
Drunk in the Street 24
Posthumous Influence of the Wise and Good. Norton 24
“Me and Bob and Jim.” Ada Stewart Shelton 25
The Angelus 26
A Regular Bad ’Un. Frederick Langbridge 26
The Thank-You Prayer 27
The True Pride of Ancestry. Webster 28
Endurance 29
The Old Man and Jim. James Whitcomb Riley 30
Why Are We Here. C. G. Dann 31
Rural Occupations Favorable to the Sentiments of Devotion. Buckminster 31
The Moonshiner’s Daughter. M. B. 32
The Baby’s Prayer. Mrs. E. E. Williamson 34
How He Got Rich 34
The Midnight Tryst. Mary E. Bryan 35
The Four-Leaved Clover. A Decoration Day Reminiscence 37
What is Religion? Bishop Heber 38
All Light There. Mrs. M. L. Rayne 38
On the Field of Gettysburg. Ena Walton 39
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate! 39
Influence of Christianity in Elevating the Female Character. J. G. Carter 40
Would We Return? Robert Burns Wilson 41
The Rose. Mrs. Sigourney 42
Death 43
My Henry. James W. Riley 43
The Lock of Hair. Thomas Dunn English 44
Vita Nova 44
Description of a Death Scene. Miss Francis 45
St. Brigid 47
“To Many of We.” 47
Decoration Day. Minnie Irving 48

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Half-Way Doin’s. Irwin Russell 3
The Lady or the Tiger. Mayor Joseph Kirkland in The Century 5
Confidential 6
St. Jonathan 6
Shinbones Becomes an Umpire. W. J. Henderson 7
Uncle Ike’s Roosters. Aaron W. Fredericks 8
How “Old Mose” Counted Eggs 9
Trouble in the Choir. A. T. Worden 10
Who Makes the Soil 12
That Gentleman from Boston Town. Joaquin Miller 13
A Change of Views. W. Carey 14
The Story of Elizur. F. A. S. 15
Robin Hood and the Abbot. John Brook 16
Two Boot Blacks 17
A Reminiscence 18
Uncle Cuff “Rises Fur Ter ’Splain.” William Longfellow Haynie 18
The Canine Question. Alex. Sweet 19
The Setting Sachem 20
Asking the Gov’nor 21
The April Face. Thomas Nelson Page 22
Guilty, Of Course. G. Waldo 23
The Mosquito 24
Ode to the Full Moon. Allen Kelly 24
The Ballad of Hiram Hover 25
A Negro’s Account of the Prodigal Son 26
Don’t Shpoil Dot Leedle Fun. Emile Pickhardt 27
Mme. Eef 27
The Lightning-Rod Dispenser. Will Carleton 28
Why Women Marry 30
A Pathetic Old Man 31
The Druggist’s Vengeance 32
The Emancipation of Man 33
The Wickedest Man in Memphis. Alex. J. Brown 34
The Knights of the Road 35
Heinz Von Stein. Charles G. Leland 35
Chairley Burke’s in Town. James Whitcomb Riley 36
The Wife’s Strategy 36
Precepts at Parting. Irwin Russell 37
Advice to a Young Man. R. J. Burdette 38
The Chap that’s Been over to Lunnon 38
Noodleberry as a Neighbor. W. H. Ellis 39
How We Tried to Whip The Teacher. Eugene J. Hall 40
Der Sphider und der Fly. Charles Follen Adams 41
Katrina’s Visit to New York. Alex. T. Brown 42
The Turkish Bath. By A Young Woman 43
Our Boarding-House Thanksgiving 44
Managing a Mule. Irwin Russell 45
Der Oak und der Vine. Charles Follen Adams 45
The Skeleton’s Confession. E. S. V. Z. 46
How She Won Him 47
The Champion. Edward P. Jackson 48

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Shamus O’Brien, The Bold Boy of Glingall. Samuel Lover 3
The Soldier’s Reward. J. W. Donovan 7
The Kitten of the Regiment 9
Perils of a Teacher. J. W. Donovan 10
A Climb at Rouen. M. Betham Edwards 11
Catching the Colt 12
Something for Strikers 13
Harmony 13
By the Wayside. E. Doherty 14
The Unwelcomed Baby 15
Running Before It. William Constable 16
“Warned.” Crape Myrtle 17
The Old Wife’s Kiss 17
The Old Office-Desk. Henry J. Shellman 19
Chickens Come Home to Roost. Ernest M‘Gaffey 19
The Blacksmith of Ragenbach 20
The Old Mill. H. W. Field 21
One at a Time 22
The Hot Axle. T. De Witt Talmage 22
Ellsworth’s Avengers. Tripp 23
The Origin of Whiskey. H. Burgess 24
The Two Words. J. E. Dinkenga 25
Listeners. M. K. D. 25
The Delinquent Subscriber. Margaret Andrews Oldham 26
“Peace, Be Still.” Violet 27
A Short Debate on Rum. “Th’ Poet o’ Ante-Bar.” 28
The Participants in the Boston Massacre. John Hancock 28
Dandie. M. F. Bradley 29
The Nameless Guest. James Clarence Harvey 30
Slug Number Eleven 30
A Famous fight. David Graham Adee 32
More Cruel Than War 33
The Fall of the Alamo. Mrs. Barr 34
A New Gospel. Carlotta Perry 35
Making the Round. Mrs. M. L. Rayne 36
The Beautiful 37
Onatoga’s Sacrifice. John Dimitry 38
Joe Sieg. Alexander Anderson 39
Education. C. Phillips 41
Ingratitude; Or, Old Sport and His Master. Fred Williams 41
Old Uncle Jake 43
On the Rappahannock 44
The Better Land 45
Charity 45
St. Michael, the Weigher 46
The Orphan’s New Year. O. H. 46
The Inch Cape Bell 47
The Old Minstrel 47

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If I Should Die To-night 3
The American Union. Daniel Webster 4
Abon Ben Adhem. Leigh Hunt 4
A Child’s Cry 4
The Shamrock. Anna B. Reardon 5
The Face Against the Pane. T. B. Aldrich 6
Do Your Part. J. W. Donovan 7
The Reign of Terror. Thomas Carlyle 8
Life is so Long 8
Storming the Temple of Mexico. William H. Prescott 9
Giant and Dwarf 9
The Religious Card Player 10
Conscience at Death 11
The Sicilian Vespers 12
The Curse of Regulus 12
Death Makes All Men Brothers. Louise S. Upham 13
A Vision Rendered Into Poetry 15
At the Shaft’s Mouth. R. E. White 16
In the Tunnel 17
The Peaceful Life. Marianne Farningham 19
The Story of a Stowaway! Clement Scott 20
Loss of The Arctic. H. W. Beecher 21
The Emigrants. Charles McKay 22
The Tramp. J. J. R. 23
The Nail Maker 23
The Last of the Druids. James Jeffrey Roche 24
Personalities and Ill Reports. Dr. John Hall 24
The Sailor’s Song. B. W. Proctor 25
Nail the Colors to the Mast. Alfred H. Miles 25
The Unknown Hero 27
The Life-Boat 28
Milton’s Last Poem 28
How to Enliven Your Days—Work With a Will 28
The Soldier’s Pardon. James Smith 29
True Bravery—A Thrilling Sketch 30
The Last Broadside. Elizabeth T. P. Beach 31
The Faithful Friend 32
His Last Run 33
The Ship on Fire. C. McKay 33
The Care of God 34
My Ship at Sea. Thomas Dunn English 35
The Sailor’s Mother. W. Wordsworth 35
Independence Bell 36
The Unknown Future. Mary Kyle Dallas 37
Creating Criminals. Charles Dudley Warner 38
Martin’s Puzzle. George Meredith 38
The Ladder of St. Augustine. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 40
The Step-mother. Nathan D. Urner 41
Success. C. M. Harger 42
The Good Woman. I. B. Mean 42
All’s for the Best. M. F. Tupper 43
The Right Road. Ella Wheeler Wilcox 43
None Will Miss Thee 44
Little Orphant Annie. James Whitcomb Riley 44
Difference Between Taste and Genius. By Blair 45
Strength for To-Day 46
Washington. Eliza Cook 46
Found Drowned 47
The Rosary 48

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Concepcion De Arguello. Bret Harte 3
Eulogium on South Carolina. Robert Y. Hayne 5
The Brewing of Soma. John G. Whittier 6
The Wee, Wee Bairnie 7
Destiny. T. B. Aldrich 8
Without Me 8
South Carolina and Massachusetts. Daniel Webster 9
Burglar Bill 10
What My Lover Said. Homer Greene 11
The Curse to Labor. T. V. Powderly 12
The New Hail Columbia. Oliver Wendell Holmes 13
Reuben James. James Jeffrey Roche 13
Reply to Mr. Webster. Robert Y. Hayne 14
Vas Marriage a Failure? Charles Follen Adams 15
The Soul’s Farewell to the Body. Ella Wheeler Wilcox 16
A Woman’s Heart 16
The Minstrel’s Curse. Ludwig Uhland 17
Visions of Joan of Arc and Bishop of Beauvais. De Quincey 18
The Old Cornet Player. J. P. Bocock 20
Speech of Icilius to the Romans. Alfieri 21
The Watch of Boon Island. Mrs. Celia Thaxter 21
Rejoinder to Mr. Hayne. Daniel Webster 23
To Ireland. J. B. Killen 24
Christ Not a Christian. A. D. 25
The Forging of the Anchor. S. Ferguson 26
Speech of Shrewsbury before Queen Elizabeth. Schiller 26
And then? James Jeffrey Roche 28
The Tell Tale Heart. Edgar Allen Poe 28
The Convict’s Hopeless Lot. An Ex-convict 30
The Star of Bethlehem. Henry Kirke White 31
Success in Life. James A. Garfield 31
The Hindoo’s Search for Truth 32
The Spiritualist. L. W. 33
Last Charge of Ney. J. T. Headley 35
The Song of the Headlight. Hardy Jackson 36
One of the Signers. John Greenleaf Whittier 37
Apparitions. Thomas Carlyle 38
Farewell to Nature. Thomas Gordon Hake 39
Jim. James Whitcomb Riley 40
Grant’s Strategy. Judge Veazey 41
Just for To-day 42
A Hero of the Tropics. I. Edgar Jones 42
Priests unto God. Rose Terry Cooke 43
The Mayflower. Edward Everett 44
The Veiled Statue at Sais. Friedrich Schiller 45
Death of Hamilton. Eliphalet Nott 46
The Soldier’s Return. Susanna Blamire 47
Vicissitudes of 1849. Horace Greeley 47
Washington. Phillips 48

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A Bachelor. By Edgar I. Brenner 31
A City Incident. George Bancroft Griffith 20
A Noble Mind in a Grand Body 38
A Paraphrase of Seneca. By Eugene Field 17
A Picture. By H. Antoine D’Arcy 15
After Death in Arabia. Sir Edwin Arnold 8
An Old Temperance Poem 29
Batyushka. T. B. Aldrich 15
Ballad of the Bloody Brook. By Edward Everett Hale 3
Boys, Go Home 25
Comfort One Another 44
Crying for the Moon 35
Death Carol. Walt. Whitman 19
Evil of Duelling. By Lyman Beecher 12
Extract from “How I Consulted the Oracle of the Goldfishes.” James Russell Lowell 10
Farmer Kent’s Parson. Margaret Holmes 40
Found Dead. By Sarah T. Bolton 26
Good-by Er Howdy-do? J. Whitcomb Riley 42
Have Patience 44
If. By Anstiss W. Curtiss 46
Illusions. By E. A. 36
In Eulogy of Water. By Emory Storrs 8
Moral Power of Public Opinion. Daniel Webster 20
No National Greatness Without Morality. By W. E. Channing 45
Nobility 48
Old Boys. George W. Bungay 39
Our Lady of the Mine 24
One of the Multitude. By Margaret Veley 47
“Our Times not Degenerate.” By Chas. Emory Smith 5
Patient Mercy Jones. By James T. Fields 13
Remembrance of Wrongs. Rufus Choate 10
Royalty. Thomas S. Collier 7
The Skeleton Soldier. Mrs. Findley Braden 33
The Stones of Manhattan. By Willis Fletcher Johnson 34
The Two Brothers. By B. E. E. 9
The King’s Daughters 21
The Centre of Gravity 22
The Four Princes. Arthur G. Geoghegan 23
The Poet’s Political Thoughts. John Greenleaf Whittier 25
The Man Who Rode to Conemaugh. John Eliot Bowen 37
The Game of Warriors 41
The Yellow Sands of Sussex. By Douglas Sladen 43
The Face Upon the Floor. H. Antoine D’Arcy 16
The King’s Dust. Harriet Prescott Spofford 12
The Church and the World. By Mathilda C. Edwards 27
The Simple Man and the Wise Man. Pollok 45
The Moan of the Attic. Margaret J. Preston 4
To Florence Nightingale of England. By John Greenleaf Whittier 10
Two. By Rose Terry Cooke 11
Under the Daisies 32
Waiting for the Mail. By S. W. Foss 40
War with Big Guns 30
“Where the Willow Makes a Shade” 18

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The Sacrifice of Abraham. N. P. Willis 3
The Angel and the Shepherds. (From Ben Hur). Lew Wallace 5
The Dead Student. Will M. Carleton 6
Henry W. Grady. James Whitcomb Riley 7
The Fratricide. John Greenleaf Whittier 8
Back from the War. T. De Witt Talmage 10
The Luck of Edenhall. H. W. Longfellow 10
That Waltz of Von Weber. Nora Perry 11
Water and Rum. John B. Gough 12
The Boy who helps his Mother 13
Teamster Jim. R. J. Burdette 14
Miriam’s Song. Thomas Moore 14
Toussaint L’Ouverture. Wendell Phillips 15
The Engineer’s Story. Eugene J. Hall 16
The Influence of Woman. Webster 16
His Mother’s Songs 17
Mother’s Doughnuts. Charles F. Adams 18
Useless Philosophers 18
The Grave. H. W. Longfellow 19
I wouldn’t—Would you? Anonymous 19
Despair. Dow, Jr. 20
The Wife’s Appeal 21
Praying for Shoes. Paul Hamilton Hayne 21
The New South. H. W. Grady 23
Lincoln. James R. Lowell 24
The Lady of the Rock. Thomas Dunn English 25
A Ballad of East and West. Yussuf 27
The Light from over the Range 28
Charlie Wong. H. Antoine D’Arcy 30
The Indian’s Tale. John Greenleaf Whittier 31
Cities. Anonymous 32
The Leper. N. P. Willis 33
The Death of the Count Armaniac. A. Mary F. Robinson 36
One Thing at a Time 36
Song of the Mountaineers. T. Buchanan Read 37
The Battle Hymn. Theodore Körner 38
A Beautiful Death. Eli Perkins 38
Annie’s Ticket 39
Bad Prayers. Bronson Alcott 39
Mattie Stephenson. Anonymous 40
The Two Pictures 40
Where God’s Hand is Seen. Captain Jack Crawford 42
The Sway of the Senses 43
Burial of the Minnisink. H. W. Longfellow 44
Mary O’Connor, the Volunteer’s Wife. Mary A. Denison 45
The Preservation of the Union. Daniel Webster 45
Our Women Heroes. Kate Brownlee Sherwood 46
The Prayers of all Living Creatures 46
Wisdom Dearly Purchased. Edmund Burke 47
Keep Pegging Away 48

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The Seeking. J. T. Trowbridge 3
The Ballad of the King’s Jest. Yussuf 4
Two Offerings. Henry W. Longfellow 6
A History. T. De Witt-Talmagen 7
The Senator’s Grandmother. Patience Stapleton 8
The March of the Years. Marianne Farningham 10
The Song of the Sirens. F. Marion Crawford 11
Agriculture. D. S. Dickinson 12
Wealth Untold. Charles Mackay, LL.D. 13
Irish Hearts and Irish Hands. Mary E. Blake 13
Fame, Wealth, Life, Death. Walter W. Skeat 14
Down in the Valley. M. Quad 15
The Home Fireside. Mary Rowles 16
Some Things Forever 17
Stratford Fountain. Oliver Wendell Holmes 17
Sympathy. Chriss Wilson 19
The World is what we make it. S. Moore 19
A Woman’s Story 19
Life’s Game of Ball 21
The most gifted of Mortals 22
To a Lady for a Picture of Pansies. T. W. Parsons 23
Just Away. J. W. Riley 23
The Lost Kiss. J. W. Riley 24
The Wonderful Country. John Boyle O’Reilly 24
The Power of Love. J. W. Donovan 25
Lost at Sea. C. S. Williams 25
Lost in the Clouds. Mary E. Bryan 26
The Dome of the Republic. Anonymous 28
Margaret. Henry William Herbert 28
Wasted. Rev. J. F. Norton 29
Gentleman Jim. Daniel O’Connell 30
Civilization of Africa. Edward Everett 31
A Story of Fredericksburg. Herbert W. Collingwood 31
Grandfather’s Rose. Mary A. Denison 32
The Mirage. H. T. B. 33
Christianity Essential to Liberty. Kossuth 33
Two Sinners. Ella Wheeler Wilcox 34
The Shunammite. N. P. Willis 35
The Demon of the Fire. Edgar A. Poe 37
The Successful Farmer 38
Who carries on the Business. Alfred J. Hough 38
Happy the Man of Steadfast Faith. Solomon Solis-Cohen 39
The Sailor Boy’s Sister. Francis Lucas 39
Human Love 40
My Picture Gallery. Adelaide Anne Proctor 40
A Pack of Cards. Janet Cossar 41
A Lame Boy’s Query. Alexander L. Kinkead 42
Kate. B. F. Sawyer 43
The Ould Canteen 43
The Cell of the Missionary. W. L. Bowles 44
Uncle Jake. Kris Kyle 45
The Tyneside Widow. Algernon Charles Swinburne 46
The Convict’s Mother. Katherine S. Mason 47
Of His Pitiable Transformation. Robert Louis Stevenson 47
Ostler Joe. Geo. R. Sims 48

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The Ballad of the Colors. Thomas Dunne English 3
The Dying Umpire 4
Goliath and David 4
Mr. Schmidt’s Mistake. Chas. F. Adams 5
Sned Skinflint’s Scheme. R. K. M. 5
Diamond cut Diamond. By John E. M‘Cann 6
Rory’s Kissing School 7
Reading a Dime Novel 8
Paddy ye Rascal 9
Uncle Peter’s Counsel to the Newly Married. Edmund Kirke 9
Bravest of the Brave. R. J. Burdette 10
A Wail of Toe 10
Mine Shildren. Charles Follen Adams 10
The Cultured Daughter of a Plain Grocer 11
Kelly at the Bat 12
“De ’Lection fer Jedge.” Unk’l Isam 13
What is Done at Saratoga. By John G. Saxe 14
When Greek meets Greek. Anon. 15
Rules for Husbands 15
Rules for Wives 16
Hustler Joe 16
Coming Home. Hugh Willoughby Sweeney 17
The Minstrels of the Night 18
Baggage-Master Brick’s Lunch Can 18
Short Summer Sermons. By Bro. Gardner 19
In Holland. Eugene Field 19
The Soft Guitar. P. F. Bowne 20
He Led his Class 20
“Human Natur’.” By Bro. Gardner 21
Shoo 21
The New Lochinvar 22
The Banana Peel 23
“Der Kicker und der Krank.” Emile Pickhardt 23
Uncle Pete and Marse George. Anon. 23
Tim Murphy’s Stew 25
De Yaller Chinee 25
Exclamatory 26
Getting Right Up 27
He Guessed he’d Fight 27
Address of the President of the Lazy Club. Anonymous 28
Paddy’s Reflections on Cleopathera’s Needle. Cormac O’Leary 29
Why she was Salted 29
More Coyness 30
A Costly Beverage 30
Smoking his First Cigar 30
The Mosquito Adjured 31
She was a Shaker 32
The Bicycle and the Pup 32
The Mutilated Currency Question 32
Carl Dunder Talks to the Children 33
Business and Gambling 34
Fate 34
Some Simple Says 34
The Girl-Shooter 34
About Bores. Alexander E. Sweet 35
Hamlet to his Mother 36
Quit your Foolin’ 37
The Necktie 37
A Leadville Sermon on the “Prod.” 37
How they Said Good-Night 38
Uncle Moses and the Comet. Ruth Argyle 39
His Heart was True to Poll 40
Pat’s Love. By Joe Jot, Jr. 41
The Montgomery Guard 42
Too Many for Him 42
Method in It 43
His Guileless Look. Thomas Holmes 42
Our Minister’s Sermon 44
Aunt Sophronia Tabor at the Opera 44
A Street Gamin’s Story of the Play. Anonymous 46
The Country Store. Nathan D. Urner 47
The Printer’s Revenge 48
The Father to his Boy 48

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The Captain’s Well. By J. G. Whittier 3
At Fredericksburg—Dec. 13, 1862. John Boyle O’Reilly 4
Extract from Blaine’s Oration on James A. Garfield 6
Drawing for Furlough 7
The Ride of Paul Venarez 8
Who’s Dead. Thomas Frost 9
The Peril of the Mines 10
Heroes. Francis A. Shaw 12
Keenan’s Charge. Geo. P. Lathrop 12
The Legend of the Organ Builder. Julia C. R. Dorr 13
The Auctioneer’s Gift. S. W. Foss 15
A War Episode. By Wallace P. Reed 15
The Volunteer Organist. By S. W. Foss 16
The Dandy Fifth. Frank H. Gassaway 17
Sure Enough. Ernest McGaffey 18
A Dream of the Universe. Jean Paul Richter 19
Petit Jean. Mary A. Barr 19
At the Hospital. J. P. B. 20
The Conductor’s Story. By B. J. M‘Dermott 21
His Sweet heart’s Song. Fred C. Dayton 22
In a Crowd. Marianne Farningham 23
The Emperor’s Breakfast. Edwin Arnold 24
After the Curfew. Oliver Wendell Holmes 24
An Essay on Home. By Margaret O’Gorman 25
Retrospection. Alfred Lyall 26
Matins. Edna Dean Proctor 28
An Army Overcoat. George Archibald 29
Little Tom. C. B. Lewis 30
The March of the Workers. William Morris 31
The Seafarer. G. R. Merry 32
We’ve always been provided for 32
Saved by a Ghost. Eben E. Rexford 33
Pardon Complete. Clara G. Dolliver 35
Artie’s “Amen.” Paul Hamilton Hayne 35
Our Old Doctor 36
Don’t Blame the World 37
Humpty Dumpty. Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney 38
Kate Shelley. Eugene J. Hall 39
Danger or Vast Fortunes. Horace Mann 40
Our Two Opinions. James Whitcomb Riley 41
The Policeman’s Story. Geo. Birdseye 41
Public Opinion. C. Farrar 42
St. John the Aged 43
A Mother’s Thoughts 45
The Singer’s Climax 46
Two Soldiers at Gettysburg. Isaac F. Eaton 47
A Message from Mamma in Heaven 47
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At the grave of Alice. Thomas Dann English 33
A doubting heart. A. A. Procter 21
At rest. Mary A. Barr 20
A legend. A. A. Procter 14
A bit of newspaper verse 10
A dead past. A. A. Procter 9
A ragged pair 7
Beyond. A. A. Procter 22
Barefooted after the cows. Fred Emerson Brooks 16
Evarra and his gods. Rudyard Kipling 35
Friar Serverus. Clifford Lanier 16
Face to face. Paul H. Hayne 11
Father Flynn as peacemaker 5
Grandmother 11
Giving our best. W. E. B. 19
Happiness 12
In the children’s hospital. Lord Tennyson 40
I am dying 36
Ingalls on life and death 13
I often wonder why ’tis so. Father Ryan 8
Janette’s Hair. Miles O’Reilly 28
Keep your face to the light 22
Leaving the old farm. Sophie L. Schenck 27
Lord Manner’s leap. Lillie E. Barr 21
Love and war. Flavel Scott Mines 15
Mistress Sunbeam. Thomas Frost 43
Mother’s Prayer 35
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Transcriber’s Note

This catalogue was originally bound into the back of Ivers’ 1887 edition of Manual of Parliamentary Practice: Rules of Proceeding and Debate in Deliberative Assemblies, by Luther S. Cushing [EBook #60757 at Project Gutenberg].