HUMOROUS READINGS AND
RECITATIONS.
LEOPOLD WAGNER, EDITOR OF "MODERN READINGS AND RECITATIONS," "NEW READINGS FROM AMERICAN AUTHORS," ETC.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
ACCOMPANIED ON THE FLUTE. F. Anstey.
THE TROUBLES OF A TRIPLET. W. Beatty-Kingston. I am, I really
SLIGHTLY DEAF. Bracebridge Hemming.
THE LADY FREEMASON. H. T. Craven. Vainly we seek it, Sanscrit
WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT! From the French of M. Charles Monselet, by F. B. Harrison .
THE FATAL LEGS. Walter Browne.
THE CALIPH'S JESTER. (FROM THE ARABIC.) On a musnud of state
A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF NOTHING. Wilkie Collins.
GEMINI AND VIRGO. C. S. Calverley.
KING BIBBS. James Albery.
MOLLY MULDOON. Anonymous. Molly Muldoon was an Irish girl, And
THE HARMONIOUS LOBSTERS. Robert Reece.
THE PROVINCIAL LANDLADY. H. Chance Newton.
MY MATRIMONIAL PREDICAMENT. Leopold Wagner.
ETIQUETTE. W. S. Gilbert. The Ballyshannon foundered off the
A LOST SHEPHERD. Frank Barrett.
A MATHEMATIC MADNESS. F. P. Dempster. For months I had been
WAITING AT TOTTLEPOT. J. Ashby-Sterry.
MARRIED TO A GIANTESS. Walter Parke.
THE VISION OF THE ALDERMAN. Henry S. Leigh.
THE DEMON SNUFFERS. Geo. Manville Fenn.
THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER. Lewis Carroll. The sun was
MY BROTHER HENRY. J. M. Barrie.
A NIGHT WITH A STORK. W. E. Wilcox.
THE FAITHFUL LOVERS. F. C. Burnand. I'd been away from her
THE WAIL OF A BANNER-BEARER. Arthur Matthison.
THE DREAM OF THE BILIOUS BEADLE. Arthur Shirley.
MY FRIEND TREACLE. Watkin-Elliott.
THE VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD. Anonymous. Have you brought my
ARTEMUS WARD'S VISIT TO THE TOWER OF LONDON. Ch. Farrar Browne.
MR. CAUDLE HAS LENT AN ACQUAINTANCE THE FAMILY UMBRELLA. Douglas Jerrold.
DOMESTIC ASIDES. Tom Hood. "I really take it very kind, This
THE CHARITY DINNER. Litchfield Moseley.
ACTING WITH A VENGEANCE. W. Sapte, Jun. Methinks 'tis a very
MY FORTNIGHT AT WRETCHEDVILLE. George Augustus Sala.
THE SORROWS OF WERTHER. W. M. Thackeray. Werther had a love for
MORAL MUSIC. ( By An Experimenter. )
BILLY DUMPS, THE TAILOR. Charles Clark.
ON PUNNING. Theodore Hook.
SEASIDE LODGINGS. Percy Reeve.
