Item - Beadle's Dime Serio-Comic Speaker

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	Beadle's Dime Speakers — no. 19
Alternate Title:	Beadle's Dime Serio-Comic Speaker: A New and Choice Collection of Original, Selected and Adapted, Laughable, Enjoyable and Effective Pieces for School, Exhibition and Home Stage
Subjects / Tags:	American wit and humor Humorous recitations Recitations Speeches, addresses, etc., American Wit and humor
Contents:	The American Phalanx (Work, pages 9-12) The Old Canoe (Work, pages 12-13) Room at the Top (Work, page 14) New England Weather (Work, pages 15-17) Bluggs! (Work, pages 18-19) Leedle Yawcob Strauss (Work, pages 20-21) A Fable (Work, page 21) The Tramp's Views of Life (Work, pages 22-23) Moral Littleness (Work, page 23) Yawcob Hoffeltegobblegunst's Treason (Work, page 24) The Setting Sachem (Work, page 25) The Street Arab's Sermon (Work, pages 26-27) Address to a Class of Young Ladies (Work, pages 28-30) A Little Big Man (Work, page 30) Test of Friendship (Work, pages 31-32) The Price of Pleasure (Work, page 32) Sour Grapes (Work, pages 33-34) The Unwritten 'Claws' of the Constitution (Work, pages 34-35) The "Ager" (Work, pages 36-37) Fish (Work, pages 38-40) Judge Not Thy Brother (Work, page 40) The Dog of St. Bernard (Work, page 41) The Liberal Candidate (Work, pages 42-44) A Boy's Opinion of Hens (Work, page 44) The Good Alone Are Great (Work, pages 45-46) The Great Napoleon (Work, page 46) The Two Lives (Work, pages 47-48) The Present Age (Work, pages 48-49) At Midnight (Work, page 50) Good-Night (Work, pages 50-51) Truth (Work, page 51) A Funny Man (Work, pages 52-53) The Little Orator. A Parody (Work, page 53) Pompey Squash on Independence (Work, pages 54-55) Mr. Lo, According to the New Verison (Work, pages 56-57) The Midnight Express (Work, pages 57-58) Morality's Worst Enemy (Work, pages 59-60) The Silent Teacher (Work, pages 60-62) The Working People (Work, page 62) The Moneyless Man (Work, pages 63-64) Strike Through the Knot (Work, page 64) An Agricultural Address (Work, pages 65-66) The New Scriptures (Work, pages 67-68) The Trombone (Work, pages 69-70) Don't Despond (Work, page 70) The Mill Cannot Grind With The Water That's Past (Work, page 71) What Became of a Lie (Work, page 72) A Telling Plea (Work, page 73) Now and Then (Work, page 74) How Ub Vas Dot For High? (Work, pages 75-76) Early Rising. A Sad Man's Views (Work, pages 76-79) A Very Smart Boy's Opinion (Work, pages 79-80) The Venomous Worm (Work, pages 80-81) Corns (Work, page 81) Up Early (Work, page 82) Not So Easy (Work, page 82) The "Dead Beat" in Politics (Work, pages 83-84) War and Dueling (Work, page 84) Charles Dickens on Horses (Work, page 85) Excelsior (Work, page 86) Paddy's Version of "Excelsior" (Work, pages 87-88) The Close-Hard Man (Work, page 88) Apples and their Application (Work, pages 89-91) "Old Scrooge" (Work, page 91) Man, Generically Considered (Work, pages 92-94) A Chemical Wedding (Work, page 94)
Date:	May 5, 1877
Publisher:	Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (New York (N.Y.): No. 98 William Street) -- United States
OCLC Number:	02512681
Edition Description:	Also includes: Publisher's Note (department) and publisher's advertisements.