Item - The Dime Ludicrous Speaker

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	Beadle's Dime Speakers — no. 14
Alternate Title:	The Dime Ludicrous Speaker: A Rare Collection of the Newest and Best Things of our Drollest Speakers and Writers
Subjects / Tags:	American wit and humor Humorous recitations Recitations Speeches, addresses, etc., American Wit and humor
Contents:	Courting (Work, pages 9-12) Higher (Work, pages 12-13) Oration on the Closing Year (Work, pages 14-16) The Maniac's Defense (Work, pages 16-18) Where the Hen Scratches (Work, pages 18-20) The Ass and the Violinist. A Fable (Work, pages 20-21) Mr. Spicer's Views of Married Life (Work, pages 22-23) Bachelors and Flirts (Work, pages 23-24) Job's Turkey (Work, pages 24-25) A Hardshell Sermon (Work, pages 26-28) My First Knife (Work, pages 28-30) Der Loddery Dicket (Work, pages 30-32) A Canni-Ballad (Work, pages 32-34) Woman's Rights (Work, pages 34-35) That's What's The Matter (Work, pages 35-36) Mrs. Jones's Pirate (Work, pages 37-40) De Goose (Work, pages 41-43) Touch of the Sublime (Work, page 43) The Blooded Van Snoozle (Work, pages 44-45) A Blast Against Tobacco (Work, pages 45-46) Tobacco, Boys! (Work, pages 46-48) Big Geniuses (Work, pages 48-49) My First Cigar (Work, pages 49-50) Terrible T-Tale (Work, pages 51-52) Mose Skinner's Silver Wedding (Work, pages 52-53) Prohebishon and Whiskey (Work, pages 53-54) Unlucky (Work, pages 54-56) Queer People (Work, pages 56-57) Biting One's Nose Off (Work, pages 57-58) Golden Rules (Work, page 58) The Singular Man (Work, page 59) A Fourth of July Oration (Work, pages 60-62) Cheer Up (Work, pages 62-63) Self-Esteem (Work, page 63) Buckwheat Cakes (Work, page 64) Mark Twain's Good Little Boy (Work, pages 65-69) A Word With You (Work, page 69) A Chemical Lament (Work, pages 70-72) The Candy-Pulling (Work, pages 72-73) Contentment (Work, pages 73-75) Josh Billings on Courting (Work, pages 75-77) Josh Billings on Laughing (Work, page 77) The Tanner Boy (Work, pages 78-79) Lecter on Wimmen's Rites (Work, pages 80-82) The Healer (Work, pages 82-84) The Criminal Lawyer (Work, pages 84-86) The Ballad of Matilda Jane (Work, pages 86-88) Water (Work, pages 88-90) The Ballad of a Baker (Work, pages 90-91) Good for Something (Work, pages 92-93) A Moving Sermon (Work, pages 93-94)
Date:	January 14, 1873
Publisher:	Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (New York (N.Y.): No. 98 William Street) -- United States
OCLC Number:	03831280
Edition Description:	Also includes: publisher's advertisements.
Length:	94 pages
Notes:	"No. 14 was advertised in Dime Novel No. 273, which appeared on the market January 14, 1873, but it was probably issued in 1872."--Johannsen, A. House of Beadle and Adams and its dime and nickel novels