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Captain Reece

13

The Rival Curates

18

Only a Dancing Girl

24

To a Little Maid

27

The Troubadour

28

Ferdinando and Elvira; or, the Gentle Pieman

33

To my Bride

37

Sir Macklin

39

The Yarn of the “Nancy Bell”

44

The Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo

48

The Precocious Baby

54

To Phoebe

59

Baines Carew, Gentleman

60

Thomas Winterbottom Hance

66

A Discontented Sugar Broker

72

The Pantomime “Super” to his Mask

78

The Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin

80

The Phantom Curate

85

King Borria Bungalee Boo

88

Bob Polter

93

The Story of Prince Agib

99

Ellen McJones Aberdeen

104

Peter the Wag

109

To the Terrestrial Globe

114

Gentle Alice Brown

115

Mister William

120

The Bumboat Woman’s Story

125

Lost Mr. Blake

131

The Baby’s Vengeance

137

The Captain and the Mermaids

143

Annie Protheroe. A Legend of Stratford-le-Bow

149

An Unfortunate Likeness

155

The King of Canoodle-dum

161

The Martinet

167

The Sailor Boy to his Lass

173

The Reverend Simon Magus

179

My Dream

184

The Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo again

189

The Haughty Actor

194

The Two Majors

200

Emily, John, James, and I. A Derby Legend

205

The Perils of Invisibility

210

The Mystic Selvagee

215

Phrenology

221

The Fairy Curate

226

The Way of Wooing

233

Hongree and Mahry. A Recollection of a Surrey Melodrama

237

Etiquette

243

At a Pantomime

249

Haunted

253