Dick's Parlor Exhibitions, and How to Make them Successful. Containing complete and detailed directions for preparing and arranging Parlor Exhibitions and Amateur Performances. It includes:

• Tableaux Vivants.
• Living Portraits.
• Living Statuary.
• Dame History's Peep Show.
• Shadow Pantomimes.
• Popular Ballads illustrated by appropriate action.
• Charades of all kinds.
• Parlor Pantomimes.
• Punch and Judy.

AND FIFTY OTHER DIVERTING PARLOR PASTIMES AND AMUSEMENTS.

It contains also a full Catalogue of the Celebrated "Art Exhibition," and a practical treatise on the wonderful Science of Second Sight.

This work is thoroughly practical and gives the fullest instructions for preparing and lighting the stage, the construction of the Frames for Living Portraits, and shows how each performance can be presented with complete success. It is illustrated with numerous engravings explaining the text.

150 pages, paper

30 cts.

Dick's One Hundred Amusements for Evening Parties, Picnics and Social Gatherings. This book is full of Original Novelties. It contains: New and Attractive Games, clearly illustrated by means of Witty Examples, showing how each may be most successfully played. Surpassing Tricks, easy of performance. Musical and other innocent sells. A variety of new and ingenious puzzles. Comical illusions, fully described. These surprising and grotesque illusions, are very startling in their effects, and present little or no difficulty in their preparation.

ALSO A NEW VERSION OF THE CELEBRATED "MRS. JARLEY'S WAX WORKS".

Illustrated by sixty fine wood engravings. Paper

30 cts.

The Book of Fireside Games. Containing an explanation of a variety of Witty, Rollicking, Entertaining and Innocent Games and Amusing Forfeits, suited to the Family Circle as a Recreation. This book is just the thing for social gatherings, parties and picnics.

Paper covers.

30 cts.

The Book Of 500 Curious Puzzles. A collection of Curious Puzzles and Paradoxes, Deceptions in Numbers, Amusing Tricks in Geometry; illustrated with a great variety of engravings.

Paper

30 cts.

How to Amuse an Evening Party. A Complete collection of Home Recreations. Profusely Illustrated with over Two Hundred fine wood-cuts, containing Round Games and Forfeit Games, Parlor Magic and Curious Puzzles, Comic Diversions and Parlor Tricks, Scientific Recreations and Evening Amusements.

Paper

30 cts.

Book of Riddles and 500 Home Amusements. Containing a curious collection of Riddles, Charades and Enigmas; Rebuses, Anagrams and Transpositions; Conundrums and Amusing Puzzles: Recreations in Arithmetic, and Queer Sleights, and numerous other Entertaining Amusements. Illustrated with 60 engravings.

Paper

30 cts.

? Any of the above may be had bound in boards. Price 50 cts.

The Secret Out; or 1,000 Tricks with Cards, and Other Recreations. Illustrated with over 300 engravings. A book which explains all the Tricks and Deceptions with Playing Cards ever known, and gives, besides, a great many new ones. The whole being described so carefully, with engravings to illustrate them, that anybody can easily learn how to perform them. This work also contains 240 of the best Tricks of Legerdemain, in addition to the Card Tricks.

400 pages, cloth

$1.50

Dick's Dutch, French and Yankee Dialect Recitations. An unsurpassed Collection of Droll Dutch Blunders, Frenchmen's Funny Mistakes, and Ludicrous and Extravagant Yankee Yarns, each Recitation being in its own dialect.

DUTCH DIALECT.

• Der Mule Shtood on der Steamboad Deck.
• Go Vay, Becky Miller.
• Der Drummer.
• Mygel Snyder's Barty.
• Snyder's Nose.
• Dyin' Vords of Isaac.
• Fritz und I.
• Betsey und I Hafe Bust Ub.
• Schneider sees Leah.
• Dot Funny Leetle Baby.
• Schnitzerl's Philosopede.
• Der Dog und der Lobster.
• Schlosser's Ride.
• Mine Katrine.
• Maud Muller.
• Ein Deutsches Lied.
• Hans and Fritz.
• Schneider's Tomatoes.
• Deitsche Advertisement.
• Vas Bender Henshpecked.
• Life, Liberty and Lager.
• Der Goot Lookin' Shnow.
• Mr. Schmidt's Mistake.
• Home Again.
• Dot Surprise Party.
• Der Wreck of der Hezberus.
• Isaac Rosenthal on the Chinese Question.
• Hans Breitmann's Party.
• Shoo Flies.
• A Dutchman's Answer.
• How Jake Schneider Went Blind.
• I Vash so Glad I Vash Here.
• The Dutchman and the Yankee.
• How the Dutchman Killed the Woodchuck.
• Der Nighd Pehind Grisdmas.
• The Dutchman's Snake.
• Yoppy's Varder und Hees Drubbles.
• Dhree Shkaders.
• Katrina Likes Me Poody Vell.
• Hans in a Fix.
• Leedle Yawcob Strauss.
• How a Dutchman was Done.
• Dot Lambs vot Mary Haf Got.
• The Yankee and the Dutchman's Dog.
• Zwei Lager.
• Schneider's Ride.
• The Dutchman and the Small-pox.
• Tiamondts on der Prain.
• A Dutchman's Testimony in a Steamboat Case.
• Hans Breitmann and the Turners.

FRENCH DIALECT.

• The Frenchman's Dilemma; or, Number Five Collect Street.
• The Frenchman's Revenge.
• Noozell and the Organ Grinder.
• How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull.
• Mr. Rogers and Monsieur Denise.
• The Frenchman and the Landlord.
• The Frenchman and the Sheep's Trotters.
• A Frenchman's Account of the Fall.
• I Vant to Fly.
• The Generous Frenchman.
• The Frenchman and the Flea Powder.
• The Frenchman and the Rats.
• Monsieur Tonson.
• Vat You Please.
• The Frenchman and the Mosquitoes.
• The Frenchman's Patent Screw.
• The Frenchman's Mistake.
• Monsieur Mocquard Between Two Fires.

YANKEE DIALECT.

• Mrs. Bean's Courtship.
• Hez and the Landlord.
• Squire Billings' Pickerel.
• Deacon Thrush in Meeting.
• The Yankee Fireside.
• Peter Sorghum in Love.
• Mrs. Smart Learns how to Skate.
• Capt. Hurricane Jones on the Miracles.
• The Dutchman and the Yankee.
• The Yankee Landlord.
• The Bewitched Clock.
• The Yankee and the Dutchman's Dog.
• Aunt Hetty on Matrimony.
• The Courtin'.
• Ebenezer on a Bust.
• Sut Lovingood's Shirt.

This Collection contains all the best dialect pieces that are incidentally scattered through a large number of volumes of "Recitations and Readings," besides new and excellent sketches never before published.

170 pages, paper cover	30 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back	50 cts.

Dick's Irish Dialect Recitations. A carefully compiled Collection of Rare Irish Stories, Comic, Poetical and Prose Recitations, Humorous Letters and Funny Recitals, all told with the irresistible Humor of the Irish dialect. Containing

• Biddy's Troubles.
• Birth of St. Patrick, The.
• Connor.
• Dermot O'Dowd.
• Dick Macnamara's Matrimonial Adventures.
• Dying Confession of Paddy M'Cabe.
• Father Molloy.
• Father Phil Blake's Collection.
• Father Roach.
• Fight of Hell-Kettle, The.
• Handy Andy's Little Mistakes.
• How Dennis Took the Pledge.
• How Pat Saved his Bacon.
• Irish Astronomy.
• Irish Coquetry.
• Irish Drummer, The.
• Irish Letter, An.
• Irish Philosopher, The.
• Irish Traveler, The.
• Irishman's Panorama, The.
• Jimmy McBride's Letter.
• Jimmy Butler and the Owl.
• King O'Toole and St. Kevin.
• Kitty Malone.
• Love in the Kitchen.
• Micky Free and the Priest.
• Miss Malony on the Chinese Question.
• Mr. O'Hoolahan's Mistake.
• Paddy Blake's Echo.
• Paddy Fagan's Pedigree.
• Paddy McGrath and the Bear.
• Paddy O'Rafther.
• Paddy the Piper.
• Paddy's Dream.
• Pat and the Fox.
• Pat and the Gridiron.
• Pat and his Musket.
• Pat and the Oysters.
• Pat's Criticism.
• Pat's Letter.
• Pat O'Flanigan's Colt.
• Patrick O'Rouke and the Frogs.
• Paudeen O'Rafferty's Say Voyage.
• Peter Mulrooney and the Black Filly.
• Phaidrig Crohoore.
• Rory O'More's Present to the Priest.
• St. Kevin.
• Teddy O'Toole's Six Bulls.
• Wake of Tim O'Hara, The.
• Widow Cummiskey, The.

This Collection contains, in addition to new and original pieces, all the very best Recitations in the Irish dialect that can be gathered from a whole library of "Recitation" books. It is full of sparkling witticisms and it furnishes also a fund of entertaining matter for perusal in leisure moments.

170 pages, paper cover	30 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back	50 cts.

Tambo's End-Men's Minstrel Gags. Containing some of the best Jokes and Repartees of the most celebrated "burnt cork" performers of our day. Tambo and Bones in all sorts and manner of scrapes. This Book is full of Burnt-Cork Drolleries, Funny Stories, Colored Conundrums, Gags and Witty Repartee, all the newest side-splitting conversations between Tambo, Bones, and the Interlocutor, and will be found useful alike to the professional and amateur performer. Contents:

• A Bird that can't be Plucked
• Annihilating Time
• At Last
• Bashful
• Bet, The
• Big Fortune, A
• Blackberrying
• Black Swan, The
• Bones and his little Game
• Bones and the Monkey Tricks
• Bones as a Fortune Teller
• Bones as a Legitimate Actor
• Bones as a Pilot
• Bones as a Prize Fighter
• Bones as a "Stugent"
• Bones as a Traveler
• Bones as a Victim to the Pen
• Bones as a Walkist
• Bones assists at the Performance of a New Piece
• Bones attends a Seance
• Bones finds Himself Famous
• Bones gets Dunned
• Bones gets Stuck
• Bones has a Small Game with the Parson
• Bones' Horse Race
• Bones in an Affair of Honor
• Bones In Love
• Bones keeps a Boarding House
• Bones on the War Path
• Bones on George Washington
• Bones on the Light Fantastic
• Bones Opens a Spout Shop
• Bones Plays O'Fella
• Bones sees a Ghost
• Bones Slopes with Sukey Sly
• Bones tells a "Fly" Story
• Brother will come home tonight
• Bones as a Carpet Bagger
• Bones as an Inkslinger
• Bones in a New Character
• Bones in Clover
• Bones' Love Scrape
• "Cullud" Ball, The
• Conundrums
• Curious Boy
• Dancing Mad
• Dat's What I'd Like to Know
• Definitions
• De Mudder of Inwention
• Difference, The
• Don't Kiss every Puppy
• "Far Away in Alabam'"
• First White Man, The
• Fishy Argument
• Four-Eleven-Forty-Four
• Four Meetings, The
• From the Polks
• Girl at the Sewing Machine
• Hard Times
• Hard to take a Hint
• Heavy Spell, A
• Highfalutin'
• Horrible!
• How Bones became a Minstrel
• How Tambo took his Bitters
• How to do it
• Impulsive Oration
• Inquisitive
• Jeallusest of her Sect
• Legal Problem, A
• Liberal Discount for Cash
• Manager in a Fix, The
• Mathematics
• Merry Life, A
• Momentous Question
• Mosquitoes
• Music
• Notes
• Ob Course
• Our Shop Girls
• Pomp and Ephy Green
• Presidency on de Brain
• Proposed Increase of Taxes
• Railroad Catastrophe
• Reality versus Romance
• Rough on Tambo
• Sassy Sam and Susie Long
• School's In
• Shakespeare with a Vengeance
• Simple Sum in Arithmetic
• Sleighing in the Park
• Sliding Down the Hill
• Style
• Sublime
• Swearing by Proxy
• Tambo's Traveling Agent
• That Dear Old Home
• "The Pervisions, Jostar"
• Thieves
• Tonsorial
• Toast, A
• Uncle Eph's Lament
• Waiting to See Him Off
• You Bet
• And 40 popular songs and dances.

Everything new and rich. Paper covers	30 cts.
Bound in boards, with cloth back	50 cts.

McBride's Comic Speeches and Recitations. Designed for Schools, Literary and Social Circles. By H. Elliott McBride, Author of "McBride's Humorous Dialogues," etc., etc. This is one of the very best series of original speeches, in Yankee, Darkey, Spread-Eagle and village styles, with a number of diverting addresses and recitations, and funny stories, forming an excellent volume of selections for supplying the humorous element of an exhibition. Contents:

• A Burst of Indignation
• Disco'se by a Colored Man
• A Trumpet Sarmon
• Sarmon on Skilletvillers
• Nancy Matilda Jones
• Hezekiah's Proposal
• About the Billikinses
• Betsy and I are Out Once More
• A Stump Speech
• About Katharine
• Deborah Doolittle's Speech on Women's Rights
• A Salutatory
• A Mournful Story
• An Address to Schoolboys
• Zachariah Popp's Courtship and Marriage
• A Sad Story
• How to Make Hasty Pudding
• My Matilda Jane
• Courtship, Marriage, Separation and Reunion
• Lecture by a Yankee
• A Colored Man's Disco'se on Different Subjects
• A Girl's Address to Boys
• McSwinger's Fate
• Peter Peabody's Stump Speech
• Mr. Styx Rejoices on Account of a New Well Spring
• Victuals and Drink
• Speech by Billy Higgins on the Destruction of His Rambo Apple Tree
• A Boy's Address to Young Ladies
• An Old Man's Address to Young Wives
• Salu-ta-tat-n-a-ry
• Valedictory.

Paper covers, illuminated	30 cts.
Board covers, illuminated	50 cts.

Beecher's Recitations and Readings. Humorous, Serious, Dramatic. Designed for Public and Private Exhibitions. Contents:

• Miss Maloney at the Dentist's
• Lost and Found
• Mygel Snyder's Barty
• Magdalena
• Jim Wolfe and the Cats
• The Woolen Doll
• The Charity Dinner
• Go-Morrow or, Lot's Wife
• The Wind and the Moon
• Dyin' Words of Isaac
• Maude Muller in Dutch
• Moses the Sassy
• Yarn of the "Nancy Bell"
• Paddy the Piper
• Schneider sees "Leah"
• Caldwell of Springfield
• Artemus Ward's Panorama
• Tale of a Servant Girl
• How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull
• Tiamondts on der Prain
• King Robert of Sicily
• Gloverson the Mormon
• De Pint wid Ole Pete
• Pat and the Pig
• The Widow Bedott's Letter
• The Cry of the Children
• The Dutchman and the Small-pox
• Sculpin
• Rats—Descriptive Recitation
• A Reader Introduces Himself to an Audience
• A Dutchman's Dolly Varden
• "Rock of Ages"
• Feeding the Black Fillies
• The Hornet
• The Glove and the Lions
• I Vant to Fly
• That Dog of Jim Smiley's
• The Faithful Soul
• "My New Pittayatees"
• Mary Ann's Wedding
• An Inquiring Yankee
• The Three Bells
• Love in a Balloon
• Mrs. Brown on the Streets
• Shoo Flies
• Discourse by the Rev. Mr. Bosan
• Without the Children
• Signor Billsmethi's Dancing Academy
• Der Goot Lookin Shnow
• The Jumping Frog
• The Lost Chord
• The Tale of a Leg
• That West-side Dog
• How Dennis Took the Pledge
• The Fisherman's Summons
• Badger's Debut as Hamlet
• Hezekiah Stole the Spoons
• Paddy's Dream
• Victuals and Drink
• How Jake Schneider Went Blind
• Aurelia's Young Man
• Mrs. Brown on Modern Houses
• Farm Yard Song
• Murphy's Pork Barrel
• The Prayer Seeker
• An Extraordinary Phenomenon
• The Case of Young Bangs
• A Mule Ride in Florida
• Dhree Shkaders

Paper covers. Price	30 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back	50 cts.

Dick's Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches. Containing the following Rich Collection of Negro Dialogues, Scenes, Farces, End-Men's Jokes, Gags, Rollicking Stories, Excruciating Conundrums, Questions and Answers for Bones, Tambo and Interlocutor, etc. Contents:

• I's Gwine to Jine de Masons
• Jes' Nail dat Mink to de Stable Do'—Oration
• But the Villain still Pursued Her—A Thrilling Tale
• Bones at a Free-and-Easy
• Buncombe Speech
• Shakespeare Improved
• End Gag—Bones and Tambo
• A Man of Nerve—Comic Sketch
• End Gag—Bones and Tambo
• Uncle Pete—Darkey Sketch
• The Rival Darkeys
• The Stage-Struck Darkey
• Add Ryman's Fourth of July Oration
• Absent-Mindedness—Bones and Tambo
• Don't Call a Man a Liar
• The Mysterious Darkey
• Rev Uncle Jim's Sermon
• The 'Possum-Run Debating Society
• Tim Murphy's Irish Stew
• Brudder Bones in Love—Interlocutor and Bones
• 'Lixey: or, The Old Gum Game—Negro Scene
• Brudder Bones' Duel
• Brudder Bones' Sweetheart
• Brudder Bones in Hard Luck
• Two Left-Bones and Tambo
• Speech on Boils
• How Bones Cured a Smoky Chimney
• Sermon on Keards, Hosses, Fiddlers, etc.
• Huggin' Lamp-Posts
• Not Opposed to Matrimony
• How Pat Sold a Dutchman
• The Coopers—one Act Farce
• Questions Easily Answered—Bones and Tambo
• Examination in Natural History—Minstrel Dialogue
• O'Quirk's Sinecure
• The Widower's Speech
• Bones at a Raffle
• Uncle Pete's Sermon
• Bones at a Soiree—Interlocutor and Bones
• Speech on Woman's Rights
• Bones' Discovery
• Mark Twain Introduces Himself—Characteristic Speech
• Speech on Happiness
• Burnt Corkers—Minstrel Dialogue
• The Nervous Woman
• The Five Senses—Minstrel Dialogue
• The Dutchman's Experience
• Essay on the Wheelbarrow
• Bones at a Pic-Nic
• The Virginia Mummy—Negro Farce
• Brudder Bones in Clover
• Artemus Ward's Advice to Husbands
• Where the Lion Roareth, and the Wang-Doodle Mourneth
• Romeo and Juliet in 1880
• Artemus Ward's Panorama
• Brudder Bones as a Carpet-Bagger—Interlocutor and Bones
• Major Jones' Fourth of July Oration
• Curiosities for a Museum—Minstrel Dialogue
• Burlesque Oration on Matrimony
• Brudder Bones on the Raging Canawl
• The Snackin'-Turtle Man—Ethiopian Sketch
• Bones' Dream—Ethiopian Sketch
• Come and Hug Me
• Widow O'Brien's Toast
• Scenes at the Police Court—Musical Minstrel Dialogue
• Brudder Bones as a Log-Roller
• De Pint Wid Old Pete—Negro Dialect Recitation
• A Touching Appeal—Dutch Dialect Recitation
• Wounded in the Corners
• Darkey Dialogue
• End Gag—Interlocutor and Bones

178 pages, paper covers	30 cts.
Bound in board, cloth back	50 cts.

Kavanaugh's New Speeches and Dialogues for Young Children. Containing easy pieces in plain language, readily understood by little children, and expressly adapted for School Exhibitions and Christmas and other juvenile celebrations. By Mrs. Russell Kavanaugh. This is an entirely new series of Recitations and Dialogues by this author, and full of pieces, in her well-known style of familiar simplicity, admirably calculated to give the little ones additional opportunities to distinguish themselves before an audience. It contains the following:

		Girls.	Boys.
Introduction
Opening Speech			1
Speech for a School Exhibition			1
The ParcÆ (The Fates)		3
Which Would You Rather Be?		6
Speech for a Tiny Girl		1
An Old Story, for a Child
Speech for a Boy			1
A Sudden Revulsion
Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus. A Novel Christmas Festival			2
May Celebration		8	3
	Speech of Crowner	1
	Speech of Sceptre-Bearer	1
	Speech of Fun	1
	Speech of Frolic	1
	Speech of Vanity	1
	Speech of Modesty	1
	Speech of Beauty	1
	Speech of Jollity		1
	Speech of Boot-Black		1
	Speech of News-Boy		1
	Speech of May Queen	1
The Tables Turned, for a Child
Speech for a Boy			1
Speech for a Small Boy			1
Speech for a Very Little Boy			1
The Farmer Boy and the City Dude			2
The Small Boy		1
Transposed		1
The Sun and His Satellites		7
	Speech of the Sun	1
	Speech of the Moon	1
	Speech of Mercury	1
	Speech of Mars	1
	Speech of Jupiter	1
	Speech of Saturn	1
	Speech of Venus	1
True Happiness			1
Genius and Application		2
Five Versus Twenty-five			1
Saved from Suicide			1
Speech for a Very Small Child
Three Enigmas		3
Tickle his Hand with a Ten Dollar Bill			1
Speech for a Small Boy			1
Beautiful Belles, for several Girls
Beautiful Dudes, for several Boys
Four Little Rose-Buds		4
A Bouquet		12
Ta! Ta!			1
Speech for a Very Little Girl		1
Speech for a Very Little Boy			1
Blood Will Tell			1
A Warning			1
A Race for Life			1
"He is a Brick"			1
Speech for a Small Boy			1
Watching		1
Gold			1
A Touching Incident			1
Buy a Broom, for several Girls
Confusion Worse Confounded			1
A Relentless Tyrant, for a Child
My Brother Jean		1
The Gratitude of the World
At the Skating Rink			1
Dimes! Oh, Dimes!			1
A Fatal Bait, for a Child
The Decorated Donkey, for a Child
Tight Times			1
The Reason Why
A Modern Flirtation
Country Meeting Talk			1
Speech			1
Deeds of Kindness
The Boy's Complaint			1
What Not to Do
Temperance Address			1
The Quarrelsome Boy			1
An Awful Fly, for a Little One
Content		1
The Winds of the Prairie
Santa Claus' Christmas Tree Speech			1
The Creator
Where Did They Go		1
The Parting Lovers		1
Do Your Best			1
Cherish Kindly Feelings
Advice to Boys		1
I Wish I Was a Grown-up			1
No Time Like the Present
The Boys We Need			1
Summer Vacation		1
MUSIC.
Three Bright Stars
Beautiful Belles
Buy a Broom

16mo., Illuminated Paper Cover	30 cts.
Boards	50 cts.

Howard's Recitations. Comic, Serious and Pathetic. Collection of fresh Recitations in Prose and Poetry, suitable for Anniversaries, Exhibitions, Social Gatherings, and Evening Parties. Contents:

• Miss Malony on the Chinese Question
• Kit Carson's Ride
• Buck Fanshaw's Funeral
• Knocked About
• Puzzled Dutchman
• Shamus O'Brien
• Naughty Little Girl
• Bells of Shandon
• No Sect in Heaven
• Rory O'Moore's Present
• "Mother's Fool"
• Queen Elizabeth—a Comic Oration
• The Starling
• Lord Dundreary's Riddle
• The Stuttering Lass
• The Irish Traveler
• The Remedy as Bad as the Disease
• A Subject for Dissection
• The Heathen Chinee
• Mona's Waters
• A Showman on the Woodchuck
• How Happy I'll Be
• A Frenchman's Account of the Fall
• Isabel's Grave
• Parson and the Spaniel
• An Irishman's Letter
• Irish Letter
• The Halibut in Love
• The Merry Soap-Boiler
• The Unbeliever
• The Voices at the Throne
• Dundreary Proposing
• The Fireman
• Paul Revere's Ride
• Annie and Willie's Prayer
• A Frenchman on Macbeth
• The New Church Organ
• Katrina Likes me Poody Vell
• How to Save a Thousand Pounds
• How I Got Invited to Dinner
• Patient Joe
• Jimmy Butler and the Owl
• The Menagerie
• Old Quizzle
• Infidel and Quaker
• The Lawyer and the Chimney-Sweeper
• Bill Mason's Bride
• Judging by Appearances
• The Death's Head
• Betsey and I are Out
• Betsey Destroys the Paper
• Father Blake's Collection
• Blank Verse in Rhyme
• Roguery Taught
• Banty Tim
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Deacon Hezekiah
• The Frenchman and the Landlord
• The Family Quarrel—A Dialogue on the Sixteenth Amendment
• The Guess
• Atheist and Acorn
• Brother Watkins
• Hans in a Fix
• To-Morrow
• The Highgate Butcher
• The Lucky Call
• Challenging the Foreman
• Country Schoolmaster
• The Matrimonial Bugs and the Travelers
• Peter Sorghum in Love
• Tim Tuff
• Nick Van Stann
• The Debating Society
• Deacon Stokes
• To Our Honored Dead
• The Dying Soldier
• The Yankee Fireside
• The Suicidal Cat
• The Son's Wish

16 mo. 180 pages. Paper covers. Price	30 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back	50 cts.

Spencer's Book of Comic Speeches and Humorous Recitations. A collection of Comic Speeches and Dialogues, Dramatic Scenes and Characteristic Soliloquies and Stories Suitable for School Exhibitions. Contents:

• Comic Prologue and Introduction
• The Yankee Landlord
• His Eye was Stern
• The Goddess of Slang
• Dick, the Apprentice
• Courting in French Hollow
• The Case Altered
• Fox and the Ranger
• The Declaration
• The Warrantee Deed
• A Night's Adventure
• Julia—Comic Love Scene
• Saying not Meaning
• Negro Burlesque for 3 males
• The Nimmers
• Gucom and the Back-log
• Widow Bedott's Mistake
• How a Bashful Lover "Popped the Question"
• Crossing Dixie
• My Last Shirt
• The Three Black Crows
• The Barber's Shop
• Paddy O'Rafther
• Decidedly Cool
• Frenchman and the Rats
• The Jester Condemned to Death
• Kindred Quacks
• Hans Breitmann's Party
• The Generous Frenchman
• Saint Jonathan
• Stump Speech
• The Rival Lodgers
• The Frenchman and the Mosquitoes
• The Maiden's Mishap
• The Removal
• Talking Latin
• Praying for Rain
• Darkey Photographer
• Paddy and his Musket
• Hezekiah Bedoit
• Uncle Reuben's Tale
• Mr. Caudle has been to a Fair
• Chemist and his Love
• Disgusted Dutchman
• The Frightened Traveler
• Jewess and her Son
• Clerical Wit—True Lies
• The School House
• Daniel versus Dishclout
• Spectacles
• The Pig
• A Stray Parrot
• Dame Fredegonde
• Toby Tosspot
• Courtship and Matrimony
• Rings and Seals
• The Biter Bit
• Pat and the Gridiron
• Barmecide's Feast
• The Country Pedagogue
• The Middle-aged Man and Two Widows
• Saratoga Waiter—Negro Scene for 2 males
• The Wrangling Pair—A Poetical Dialogue for Male and Female
• A Connubial Eclogue
• The Italian from Cork
• Gasper Schnapps' Exploit
• Epilogue—Suitable for Conclusion of an Entertainment

Paper covers. Price	30 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back	50 cts.

Martine's Droll Dialogues and Laughable Recitations. A collection of Humorous Dialogues, Comic Recitations and Spirited Stump Speeches and Farces, adapted for School and other Celebrations. Contents:

• Hints to Amateur Actors.
• Humorous Poetical Address
• The Bell and the Gong
• Mrs. Dove's Boarding House
• The Wilkins Family
• The Lawyer's Stratagem
• Eulogy on Laughing
• Drawing a Long Bow. For 3 males and 1 female.
• The Origin of Woman's Ascendency over Man
• Veny Raynor's Bear Story
• The Game of Life
• The Fortune Hunter. For 2 males and 3 females
• The Parson and the Widow
• Hezekiah Stubbins' Fourth of July Oration
• Make your Wills. Farce for 7 male characters
• Mr. Rogers and Monsieur Denise
• Job Trotter's Secret
• The Darkey Debating Society. Dialogue for 2 males
• The Scandal Monger. Dialogue for 2 males and 2 females
• Poor Richard's Sayings
• Prologue to "The Apprentice"
• Address in the character of "Hope" A Prologue
• Parody on the Declaration of Independence
• Bombastes Furioso. A Burlesque for 7 males
• Characteristic Address
• Examining de Bumps. Ethiopian Dialogue for 2 males
• Election Stump Speech
• A Matrimonial Tiff. Dialogue for 1 male and 2 females
• The Frenchman and the Sheep's Trotters
• The Poor Relation. Comic Drama for 7 males
• Vat you Please
• The Babes in the Wood. For 3 males and 4 females.
• My Aunt.
• Handy Andy's Mistakes.
• The Cat Eater.
• A Shocking Mistake. Dialogue for 3 males and 2 females
• Wanted a Governess
• Rival Broom Makers
• Paudeen O'Rafferty's Say-Voyage
• Mr. Caudle's Wedding Dinner
• Our Cousins. Negro Dialogue for 2 male characters
• Mr. Caudle made a Mason
• Address of Sergeant Buzfuz
• The Wonderful Whalers
• Sam Weller's Valentine

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Wilson's Book of Recitations and Dialogues. Containing a choice selection of Poetical and Prose Recitations. Designed as an Assistant to Teachers and Students in preparing Exhibitions. By Floyd B. Wilson, Professor of Elocution. Contents:

• Instruction In Elocution
• Dedication of Gettysburg Cemetery
• Sheridan's Ride
• There's but one Pair of Stockings
• Modulation
• Drummer Boy's Burial
• John Maynard, the Pilot
• The Boys
• The Duel
• Lochiel's Warning
• Socrates Snooks
• Mosaic Poetry
• Burial of the Champion of his Class at Yale College
• Scott and the Veteran
• Barbara Frietchie
• I Wouldn't—Would You?
• The Professor Puzzled
• Thanatopsis
• The Two Roads
• The Pawnbroker's Shop
• The Sophomore's Soliloquy
• The Nation's Hymn
• Address to a Skeleton
• A Glass of Cold Water
• Little Gretchen; or New Year's Eve
• Good News from Ghent
• The Sea Captain's Story
• Our Heroes
• The Closing Year
• Burial of Little Nell
• The Picket Guard
• The Poor Man and the Fiend
• Our Country's Call
• The Conquered Banner
• The High Tide; or, the Brides of Enderby
• Death of Gaudentis
• Don Garzia
• Past Meridian
• The Founding of Gettysburg Monument
• Spartacus to the Gladiators
• Soliloquy of the Dying Alchemist
• The Country Justice
• Unjust National Acquisition
• Dimes and Dollars
• Dead Drummer Boy
• Home
• Responsibility of American Citizens
• The Jester's Sermon
• Left on the Battle Field
• The American Flag
• Oh! Why should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud?
• Parrhasius
• The Vagabonds
• A Bridal Wine Cup
• Blanche of Devan's Last Words
• Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles
• A Psalm of the Union
• Charge of a Dutch Magistrate
• Stars in my Country's Sky
• Bingen on the Rhine
• Religious Character of President Lincoln
• The Raven
• The Loyal Legion
• Agnes and the Years
• Cataline's Defiance
• Our Folks
• The Beautiful Snow
• The Ambitious Youth
• The Flag of Washington
• The Abbot of Waltham
• Ode to an Infant Son
• The Scholar's Mission
• Claude Melnotte's Apology
• Forging of the Anchor
• Wreck of the Hesperus
• The Man of Ross
• No Work the Hardest Work
• What is Time?
• Brutus's Oration over the Body of Lucretia
• What is That, Mother?
• A Colloquy with Myself
• St. Philip Neri and the Youth
• The Chameleon
• Henry the Fourth's Soliloquy on Sleep
• On Procrastination
• Appendix

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Brudder Bones' Book of Stump Speeches and Burlesque Orations. Also containing Humorous Lectures, Ethiopian Dialogues, Plantation Scenes, Negro Farces and Burlesques, Laughable Interludes and Comic Recitations. Contents:

• If I may so Speak. Burlesque Oration
• Dr. Pillsbury's Lecture on Politics
• Vegetable Poetry. For 2 males
• Teco Brag's Lecture on Astronomy
• We saw Her but a Moment
• Stocks Up, Stocks Down. For 2 males
• Brudder Bones' Love Scrapes.
• Stump Speech; or, "Any other Man."
• War's your Hoss. Dialogue Recital
• Geology. Dialogue for 2 males
• Tin-pan-o-ni-on. For Leader and Orchestra
• Dr. Puff Stuff's Lecture on Patent Medicines
• Sailing. For 2 males
• Challenge Dance. For 3 males
• Lecture on Bad Boys
• Tony Pastor's Great Union Speech
• A Tough Boarding House
• Sleeping Child. 2 males
• Ain't I Right, Eh? Speech
• Wonderful Egg. For 2 males
• Bootblack's Soliloquy
• Lecture to a Fire Company
• Julius' Peaches. For 2 males
• De Trouble Begins at Nine
• The Arkansas Traveler. For 2 Violin players
• Slap Jack. For 2 Darkeys
• Turkey-town Celebration. An Oration
• Uncle Steve's Stump Speech
• A Midnight Murder
• Dat's What's de Matter
• The Freezing Bed Feller
• Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins
• Paddy Fagan's Pedigree
• The Rival Darkeys. Act for 2 males
• Hans Sourcrout on Signs and Omens
• Hun-ki-do-ris Fourth of July Oration
• Josh Billings on Mosquitoes
• History of Cap. John Smith
• A Speech on Women
• Impulsive Peroration
• The Bet. For 2 Darkeys
• Old Times gone By. Dialogue for 2 Darkeys
• The Echo. Act for 2 Negroes
• Sol Slocum's Bugle.
• Western Stump Speech
• In the Show Business. Dialogue for 2 males
• "We are." Stump Oration
• Original Burlesque Oration
• Waiting to see Him off. For 2 males
• Patriotic Stump Speech
• De Railroad Accident. For 2 Darkeys
• The Dutchman's Lecture
• Prof. Unworth's Lecture
• The Three old Ladies
• Josh Billings' Lecture onto Musick
• Brudder Bones' Lady-Love. Dialogue for 2 males
• Deaf—In a Horn. Act for 2 males
• Or any oder Man's Dog. A Speech
• Happy Uncle Tom
• Stick a Pin Dere, Brudder Horace
• Lecture on Woman's Rights
• Dat's wot de "Ledger" says. For 2 Darkeys
• Goose Hollow Stump Speech
• De Milk in de Cocoa Nut
• A Dutchman's Answer
• Lecture on Cats
• The Patent Screw
• The Auctioneer
• Hints on Courtship
• Dutch Recruiting Officer
• Spirit Rappings. Dialogue for 2 males
• Dar's de Money
• Let Her Rip. Burlesque Lecture
• The Stranger. Scene for 1 male and 1 female

16 mo. 188 pages. Paper covers. Price	30 cts.
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Dick's Diverting Dialogues. A collection of effective Dramatic Dialogues, written expressly for this work by various authors, and adapted for Parlor Performances. They are short, full of telling "situations," introducing easy dialect characters, and present the least possible difficulties in scenery and costume to render them exceedingly attractive. Edited by Wm. B. Dick.

	Girls.	Boys.
Lost and Won	2	2
Running for Office		3
The Uncle. A Proverb	1	2
Love's Labor Not Lost	1	2
Wanted—A Nurse	3	2
Almost A Tragedy		2
The Will. A Proverb	1	3
Who Wears the Breeches	1	1
A Cold in the Head	4	2
The Wedding Day. A Proverb	1	3
A Society for Doing Good	4
The Reception. A Proverb	2	3
Caught in their Own Trap	2	3
Elwood's Decision		4
The Report. A Proverb	2	1
Reformed Mormon Tippler	3	1
The Fortune Hunter. A Proverb	2	2
Petticoat Government	1	2
Now or Never. A Proverb	1	3
A Close Shave		2

Including a complete programme of effective Living Portraits and Tableaux, with full directions for exhibiting them successfully.

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Dick's Comic and Dialect Recitations. A capital collection of Comic Recitations, Ludicrous Dialogues, Funny Stories, and Inimitable Dialect Pieces, containing:

• An Æsthetic Housekeeper
• At the Rug Auction
• Aunt Sophronia Tabor at the Opera—Yankee Dialect
• Awfully Lovely Philosophy
• Bad Boy and the Limburger Cheese, The
• Barbara Frietchie—Dutch
• Boy in the Dime Museum
• Bric-a-Brac
• Brudder Johnson on 'Lectricity—Negro Dialect
• Butterwick's Weakness
• By Special Request
• Can this be True?
• Champion Liar, The
• Conversion of Colonel Quagg
• Cut, Cut Behind—Dutch
• Debit and Credit in the Next World
• Der Oak und der Vine
• Der 'Sperience of Reb'rend Quacko Strong—Negro
• Der Vater Mill
• Doctor's Story.
• Dutch Advertisement.
• Dutchman and the Raven
• Dutch Security—Dutch
• Early Bird, The
• Gentle Mule, The
• Granny Whar You Gwine?
• Girl of Culture.
• Goin' Somewhere—Yankee
• Go-Morrow, or Lot's Wife
• Hard Witness, A
• Horse that Wins the Race
• How a Woman Does It
• How Buck was Brought to Time—Yankee Dialect
• How Uncle Fin had the Laugh on the Boys
• Humming Top, The
• In der Shweed Long Ago
• Inquisitive Boy, The
• Irishman's Perplexity, An
• Jim Onderdonk's Sunday-School Oration
• John Chinaman's Protest
• Juvenile Inquisitor, A
• Malony's Will—Irish Dialect
• Mark Twain on the 19th Century
• Mickey Feeny and the Priest
• Mine Moder-in-Law
• Mother's Doughnuts
• Mr. and Mrs. Potterman
• Mr. Schmidt's Mistake
• Mr. Spoopendyke Hears Burglars
• O'Branigan's Drill
• Old Bill Stevens
• Old Erasmus' Temperance Pledge—Negro Dialect
• Ole Settlers' Meetun
• Original Love Story, An
• Our Debating Club
• Parson Jinglejaw's Surprise
• Pat's Correspondence
• Pleasures of the Telephone
• Positively the Last Performance—Cockney Dialect
• Raven, The—Dutch Dialect
• Sad Fate of a Policeman
• Scripture Questions
• Sermon for the Sisters, A
• Solemn Book-Agent, The
• That Fire at Nolan's
• That Freckle-Faced Girl
• The Latest Barbara Frietchie—Dutch Dialect
• The Paper Don't Say
• Thikhead's New Year's Call
• Tickled all Oafer
• 'Twas at Manhattan Beach
• Uncle Billy's Disaster
• Uncle Mellick Dines with his Master—Negro Dialect
• Uncle Remus' Tar Baby
• Uncle Reuben's Baptism
• United Order of Half-Shells
• Waiter's Trials, A
• Warning to Woman, A
• Ways of Girls at the Play
• Western Artist's Accomplishments, A
• Wily Bee, The
• Woman's Description of a Play, A
• Yaller Dog, The

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Barton's Comic Recitations and Humorous Dialogues. Containing a variety of Comic Recitations in Prose and Poetry, Amusing Dialogues, Burlesque Scenes, Eccentric Orations, Humorous Interludes and Laughable Farces.

• A Prologue to Open an Entertainment
• The Stage-Struck Hero
• Here She Goes—and There She Goes
• Pastor M'Knock's Address
• Old Sugar's Courtship
• The Bachelor's Reasons for Taking a Wife
• The Spanish Valet and the Maid—Dialogue for 1 male and 1 Female.
• The Jackdaw of Rheims
• Jonathan and the Englishman
• Artemus Ward's Trip
• Auctioneer and the Lawyer
• Mr. and Mrs. Skinner
• The Bachelor and the Bride
• Drunkard and his Wife
• A Western Lawyer's Plea against the Fact
• Reading a Tragedy
• Cast-off Garments
• How to Cure a Cough
• The Soldier's Return
• Countrymen and the Ass
• Come and Go
• How they Pop the Question
• The Clever Idiot
• The Knights
• How the Lawyer got a Patron Saint
• Josh Billings on Laughing
• Night after Christmas
• A Change of System—for 2 males and 1 female
• Citizen and the Thieves
• Bogg's Dogs
• The Smack in School
• The Tinker and the Miller's Daughter
• An Original Parody
• The Parsons and the Corkscrew
• The Old Gentleman who Married a Young Wife
• Stage-Struck Darkey—Interlude for males
• Goody Grim versus Lapstone—Dialogue for 4 males
• The Woman of Mind
• Wanted, a Confederate—Farce for 4 males
• Lodgings for Single Gentlemen
• Nursery Reminiscences
• The Farmer and the Councellor
• The Pugilists
• How Pat Saved his Bacon
• The Irish Drummer
• Mike Hooter's Bear Story
• The Critic
• Mr. Caudle Wants a Latch Key
• Humbugging a Tourist
• The Widow's Victim—for 2 males and 1 female
• Josh Rillings on the Mule
• Tinker and the Glazier
• Wonderful Dream—Negro Dialogue for 2 males
• An Occasional Address—For a Lady's First Appearance
• An Occasional Prologue—For Opening a Performance
• Address on Closing a Performance
• A Prologue for a Performance by Boys
• An Epilogue for a School Performance

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