Item - The Dime Dialect Speaker

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Alternate Title:	The Dime Dialect Speaker: A "Taking" Collection of Irish, German-English, Cockney, Negro, Yankee and Western Vernacular; Speeches, Recitations and Narratives
Subjects / Tags:	American wit and humor Dialects English language Humorous recitations Recitations Speeches, addresses, etc., American United States Wit and humor
Notes:	"Copyrighted in 1879, and advertised March 27, 1880.(14) It probably appeared earlier, perhaps late in 1879."--Johannsen, A. House of Beadle and Adams and its dime and nickel novels

(source: NIU Libraries)

Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	Beadle's Dime Speakers no. 23
Item:	The Dime Dialect Speaker
Contents:	Dat's W'at's De Matter! (pages 9-10) The Mississippi Miracle (pages 10-12) Ven T'e Tide Cooms In (page 13) Dose Lams Vot Mary Haf Got (page 14) Pat O'Flaherty on Woman's Rights (pages 14-15) The Home Rulers (pages 16-17) Hezekiah Dawson on Mothers-In-Law (pages 17-18) He Didn't Sell (pages 18-19) The True Story of Franklin's Kite (pages 20-22) I Would I Were A Boy Again (pages 23-24) A Pathetic Story (pages 24-25) All About A Bee (pages 25-26) Scandal. A Drum Head Sermon (pages 26-29) A Dark Side View (pages 29-30) Te Pesser Vay (pages 30-31) On Learning German (page 32) Mary's Shmall Vite Lamb (page 33) A Healthy Discourse (pages 34-36) Tobias, So To Speak (pages 37-38) Old Mrs. Grimes (pages 38-39) A Parody (pages 39-40) Mars and Cats (pages 41-42) Bill Underwood, Pilot (pages 42-43) Old Granley (pages 44-45) The Pill Peddler's Oration (pages 45-46) Widder Greene's Last Words (pages 47-48) The Latest Chinese Outrage (pages 48-51) The Manifest Destiny of the Irishman (pages 52-53) Peggy McCann (pages 53-54) Sprays From Josh Billings (pages 54-56) De Circumstances Ob De Sitiwation (pages 57-58) Dar's Nuffin New Under De Sun (pages 58-60) A Negro Religious Poem (pages 60-61) That Violin (pages 61-62) Picnic Delights (pages 63-64) Our Candidate's Views (pages 64-66) Dundreary's Wisdom (pages 66-68) Plain Language By Truthful Jane (pages 69-70) My Neighbor's Dogs (pages 70-71) Condensed Mythology (pages 72-75) The Stove Pipe Tragedy (pages 76-77) A Doketor's Drubbles (pages 77-80) The Coming Man (pages 81-83) The Illigant Affair at Muldoon's (pages 83-86) That Little Baby Around The Corner (pages 86-88) A Genewine Inference (pages 88-89) An Invitation to the Bird of Liberty (pages 89-90) The Crow (pages 90-91) Out West (pages 91-92)
Date:	1879
Publisher:	Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (New York (N.Y.): No. 98 William Street) -- United States
OCLC Number:	25210723
Description:	Also includes: publisher's advertisements.
Length:	92 pages