Pieces People Ask For / Serious, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic, and Dramatic Selections in Prose and Poetry for Reading and Recitations

George M. Baker

Part I

Part II

SERIOUS, HUMOROUS, PATHETIC, PATRIOTIC,
AND DRAMATIC SELECTIONS IN
PROSE AND POETRY

FOR

READINGS AND RECITATIONS

EDITED BY
GEORGE M. BAKER

BOSTON

WALTER H. BAKER & CO.

1909

Pieces People Ask For

Book Cover.

Contents

PART I
“Bay Billy”	Frank H. Gassaway	98
Because	Boston Transcript	33
The Book Canvasser		78
Casabianca (Colored)		43
A Centre-board Yacht-race	George A. Stockwell	67
The Christening	E. T. Corbett	37
The Coming Wave	Oliver Optic	82
Counting Eggs	Texas Siftings	64
Cut, Cut Behind	Charles Follen Adams	45
The Deacon’s Ride	Mary C. Huntington	59
The Death of D’Assas	Mary E. Vandyne	24
Decoration Day	Mary Bassett Hussey	54
The Driver of Ninety-three	Sarah K. Bolton	8
The Engineer’s Story	Eugene J. Hall	81
The Fall	Thomas Hood	66
Filling His Place	Maria L. Eve	40
The Flag	James Jeffrey Roche	32
The Heritage	James Russell Lowell	42
Hiring Help	Mrs. S. E. Dawes	102
The House in the Meadow	Louise Chandler Moulton	15
How the Ransom was Paid	W. R. Rose	10
Jem’s Last Ride	Mary A. P. Stansbury	88
The Labor Question	Wendell Phillips	29
The Light from Over the Range		5
A Little Peach		17
A Lost Child	Anna F. Burnham	86
Love and Philosophy	Geo. Runde Jackson	30
Malaria		74
Mary’s Lamb on a New Principle		44
The Man with the Musket	H. S. Taylor	27
Metamora to the Council		9
Missing		53
The Mississippi Miracle	Irwin Russell	70
Mr. Pickwick’s Romantic Adventure
with a Middle-aged Lady in
Yellow Curl-Papers	Dickens	18
Over the Crossin’	Springfield Republican	92
Puzzled		76
The Rajah’s Clock	Theron Brown	57
Re-enlisted	Lucy Larcom	11
Scene from “Ion”	Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd	46
She Stood on the Stair	Puck	13
The Silver Bell	Mrs. Julia D. Pratt	63
Somehow or Other		94
The Story of Sir Arnulph	Gerald Massey	85
Taters	W. O. Eaton	96
Together on the Stairs	Andrew G. Tubbs	35
A Tough Customer	William L. Keese	28
“An Unknown Man, Respectably Dressed”	Helen Jackson	97
The Village Choir	Audre’s Journal	39
Wendell Phillips	John Boyle O’Reilly	72
When Greek met Greek		56
When McGue puts the Baby to Sleep		87
PART II
After “Taps”	Horace B. Sargent	78
At Arlington	James R. Randall	15
At the Rising of the Moon	Leo Casey	12
Aunt Parson’s Story	Presbyterian Journal	48
Aunt Sophronia Tabor at the Opera		36
Biddy’s Philosophy	R. H. Stoddard	102
The Bravest Boy in Town	Emma H. Nason,
	in Wide Awake	23
Brer Rabbit and the Butter	Harris	26
Cicely and the Bears	Lilliput Levee	64
The “Course of Love” Too “Smooth”		97
The Drummer’s Betrothed	M. Cecile Brown,
	from Victor Hugo	5
The Dutchman’s Serenade		57
Dyin’ Vords of Isaac	Anonymous	99
A Fight with a Trout	Charles D. Warner	40
Forcible Entry	J. M. Bailey	45
Grant’s Strategy	Judge Veazey	85
He Never Told a Lie		82
A Howl in Rome	Bill Nye	67
Indian Names	L. H. Sigourney	80
Jamie Douglas		70
John Leland’s Examination		8
A Laughing Philosopher		17
A Leak in the Dike	Phoebe Cary	93
Lessons in Cookery	Detroit Free Press	107
A Lesson to Lovers		83
A “Love” Game	T. Malcolm Watson	86
The Loves of a Life	Mazzini	29
“Magdalena”	Puck	75
The Menagerie	J. Honeywell	100
Nebulous Philosophy	J. Edgar Jones	14
Never Too Late	Earnest McGaffey	39
No!	Hood	100
The Old Canteen		34
An Old Man’s Prayer	George M. Baker	88
On the Shores of Tennessee	E. L. Beers	103
An Order for a Picture	Alice Cary	42
An Original Idea	George M. Baker	110
Over the Left	W. C. Dornin	56
Paddy’s Dream	Anonymous	106
Pat’s Reason		109
The Prisoner		31
Raking the Meadow-Lot	Ruth Revere	77
The Saddest Sight		13
Scene from “Ingomar”	Maria Lovell,
	from the German	59
The Seminole’s Reply		56
The September Gale	O. W. Holmes	11
The Soldier’s Dream	C. G. Fall	53
The Song of the Drum	I. E. Diekenga	20
Story of a Bedstead	San Fransisco Wasp	72
Wendell Phillips	Henry W. Beecher	46

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