PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

HOW SALVATOR WON.

THE GOSSIPS.

PLATONIC.

SOLITUDE.

GRANDPA'S CHRISTMAS.

AFTER THE ENGAGEMENT.

THE WATCHER.

Info

THE PHANTOM BALL.

THE KINGDOM OF LOVE.

UNDER THE SHEET.

HIS YOUTH.

WANTED A LITTLE GIRL.

TWO SINNERS.

MEG'S CURSE.

A FABLE.

THE WAY OF IT.

THE SUICIDE.

"NOW I LAY ME."

THE MESSENGER.

ILLOGICAL.

A SERVIAN LEGEND.

PEEK-A-BOO.

THE FALLING OF THRONES.

HER LAST LETTER.

BABYLAND.

FISHING.

THE OLD STAGE QUEEN.

THE PRINCESS'S FINGER-NAIL. A TALE OF NONSENSE LAND.

A BABY IN THE HOUSE.

THE FOOLISH ELM.

ROBIN'S MISTAKE.

NEW YEAR RESOLVE.

WHAT WE WANT.

THE TWO GLASSES.

A PIN.

BREAKING THE DAY IN TWO.

THE RAPE OF THE MIST.

THE MANIAC.

WHAT IS FLIRTATION?

HOW DOES LOVE SPEAK?

AS YOU GO THROUGH LIFE.

MEMORY'S RIVER.

THE LADY AND THE DAME.

A MARRIED COQUETTE.

A PLEA.

THE SUMMER GIRL.

"THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE DANUBE." [With "Blue Danube Waltz" as musical accompaniment.]

THE BIRTH OF THE OPAL.

SOUNDS FROM THE BASEBALL FIELD.

A WALTZ-QUADRILLE. [With Musical Accompaniment.]

ANSWERED.

THE SIGN-BOARD.

ABOUT MAY.

THE GIDDY GIRL. [This recitation is intended to be given with

DELL AND I.

VANITY FAIR.

A GIRL'S AUTUMN REVERIE.

GETHSEMANE.

THE COMING MAN.

A MAN'S REPENTANCE. [Intended for recitation at club dinners.]

DICK'S FAMILY.

How Salvator Won

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O T H E R   R E C I T A T I O N S


BY
ELLA   WHEELER   WILCOX

Author of “Maurine,” “Poems of Passion,” “Poems of Pleasure,” “Mal MoulÉe,” “Adventures of Miss Volney,” “A Double Life,” Etc.


New York
EDGAR S. WERNER
1891


COPYRIGHT, 1891,
BY
EDGAR S. WERNER.