Item - Beadle's Dime Humorous Speaker

(Original edition - source: NIU Libraries)

(Ivers edition - source: NIU Libraries)

Combined Summary

Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University (Ivers edition) Northern Illinois University (Original edition)
Series:	Beadle's Dime Speakers — no. 6
Alternate Title:	Beadle's Dime Humorous Speaker: A New Collection of what is Amusing and Droll, American Wit, Humor and Burlesque
Subjects / Tags:	American wit and humor Humorous recitations Recitations Speeches, addresses, etc., American Wit and humor
Contents:	Hans Schlackenlichter's Snake (Work, pages 9-10) Hun-Ki-Do-Ri's Fourth of July Oration (Work, pages 11-13) Ego and Echo (Work, pages 13-14) How the Money Goes (Work, pages 14-15) The Cockney (Work, pages 15-16) Scientific Lectures (Work, pages 17-21) The "Ager" (Work, pages 22-24) A Tragic Story (Work, page 24) The Shoemaker (Work, pages 25-26) Lot Skinner's Elegy (Work, pages 26-27) Ze Moskeetare (Work, page 27) A String of Onions (Work, pages 28-32) Debt (Work, pages 33-34) To the Bachelors' Union League (Work, pages 34-35) Nothing to Do (Work, pages 36-37) Gottlieb Klebcyergoss Again (Work, pages 37-39) Lay of the Henpecked (Work, page 39) Old Caudle's Umbrella (Work, pages 40-42) A Sad Story (Work, page 42) Right Names (Work, page 43) The Waterfall (Work, page 44) Poetry Run Mad (Work, pages 44-48) Jo Bows on Leap Year (Work, pages 48-50) If You Mean No, Say No (Work, pages 50-51) The Last of the Sarpints (Work, pages 51-53) The Feathers' Quarrel (Work, pages 53-54) Old Grimes's Son (Work, pages 54-55) What I Wouldn't Be (Work, pages 55-56) Fern Thistles (Work, pages 56-59) The Secret (Work, page 59) The Codfish (Work, pages 60-61) The Fate of Sergeant Thin (Work, pages 61-62) "Paddle Your Own Canoe" (Work, pages 62-63) Dow, Jr.'s Lectures (Work, pages 63-67) The Mysterious Guest (Work, pages 67-70) United States Presidents (Work, pages 70-71) Devils (Work, page 71) The Harp of a Thousand Strings (Work, pages 71-73) The Sea-Serpent (Work, pages 73-76) Yankee Doodle Aladdin (Work, pages 76-77) The Useful Doctor (Work, page 78) Parody on "Araby's Daughter" (Work, pages 78-79) The Pump. A Fable (Work, pages 79-81) Vagaries of Popping the Question (Work, pages 81-83) Fashionable Women (Work, pages 83-84) The Hamerican Voodchuck (Work, pages 84-85) Good Nature (Work, page 85) 1933 (Work, page 86) The March to Moscow (Work, pages 87-89) Matrimony (Work, pages 89-90) Courtship (Work, pages 91-94) Hosea Biglow's Opinions (Work, pages 94-95) Cats (Work, page 96)
Dates:	April 30, 1866 (Original edition) 1899 (Ivers edition)
Publishers:	Ivers edition: M.J. Ivers & Co. (New York (N.Y.): 379 Pearl St.) -- United States Original edition: Beadle and Company (New York (N.Y.): 118 William St.) -- United States
OCLC Numbers:	09137766 (Ivers edition) 1062951585 (Original edition)
Edition Descriptions:	Original edition: Also includes: publisher's advertisements. Ivers edition: Also includes: publisher's advertisements.
Length:	96 pages