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The Universal Reciter

81 CHOICE PIECES

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OF RARE POETICAL GEMS, FINE SPECIMENS OF ORATORY, THRILLING SENTIMENT, ELOQUENCE, TENDER PATHOS, AND SPARKLING HUMOR.

Illustration from The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems

LONDON: WILLIAM NICHOLSON AND SONS, 20, WARWICK SQUARE PATERNOSTER ROW, AND ALBION WORKS, WAKEFIELD.

CONTENTS.
CONTENTS.

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A Horse Car Incident 194

A love of a Bonnet 87

An Eruption of Mount Vesuvius 100

A Plea for the Ox 103

A Pleasure Exertion 203

A Precious Pickle 125

A Psalm of Life 231

Bell of the "Atlantic" 243

Big Oyster, The 122

Black Regiment, The 162

Boy Archer, The 72

David and Goliath 109

David's lament over Absalom 71

Drafted 98

Dying Hebrew, The 41

Enlisting as Army Nurse 139

Falstaff's Boasting 64

Forging of the Anchor 148

Flowers, The 246

Give me back my Husband 44

Graves of a Household 249

Green Goose, The 175

Gridiron, The 144

Here she goes, and there she goes 105

How we hunted a Mouse 38

Hypochondriac, The 247

Ignorance is bliss 58

Injured Mother, The 50

Juvenile Pugilists 221

Knife Grinder, The 191

Last Man, The 232

Lord Dundreary at Brighton 151

Mantle of St. John De Matha, The 234

Mariner's Wife, The 11

Menagerie, The 56

Migratory Bones 177

Mills of God, The 55

Miser's Fate, The 16

Miss Maloney on the Chinese Question 119

Murdered Traveller, The 70

My Mother's Bible 138

My Friend's Secret 156

One Hoss Shay, The 46

Only Sixteen 143

On to Freedom 68

On the Shores of Tennessee 159

Owl, The 245

Pat and the Fox 22

Pat-ent Gun 229

Patrick's Colt 34

Paul Revere's Ride 200

Pauper's Death Bed 193

Pledge with Wine 250

Polish Boy, The 237

Preaching to the Poor 192

Rain Drops, The 172

Red Chignon 180

Sambo's Dilemma 20

San Francisco Auctioneer 227

Satan's Address to the Sun 32

Scolding Old Dame 174

Shamus O'Brien 214

She would be a Mason 18

Snyder's Nose 13

Socrates Snooks 198

That Hired Girl 241

There's but one pair of Stockings to mend to night 85

Thief of Time, The 164

The Old Man in the Stylish Church 223

The Old Man in the Model Church 225

The World for Sale 37

To my Mother 27

Two Weavers, The 117

Vain Regrets 158

Ventriloquist on a Stage Coach 76

Voices at the Throne 155

Vulture of the Alps, The 62

What ailed "Ugly Sam" 29

Which am de Mightiest 219

Widow Bedott's Poetry 112

Wilkins on Accomplishments 7

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