The speaker's ideal entertainments
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Chapters (132)
- Ideal Entertainments;
- GEORGE M. VICKERS.
- FRANCES E. PEIRCE,
- INTRODUCTION.
- NOTATION OF GESTURE.
- The Gallant Fifty-First.
- The Dead Letter.
- PA.
- Dying to Win.
- LITTLE BROWN EYES.
- The Last Salute.
- Studying For The Contest.
- Crazy Nell.
- Sir Rupert’s Wife.
- Civilization.
- Getting Ready.
- The Humors of Elocution
- The Reason Why.
- Nothing to Wear.
- Echo and the Ferry.
- Roderick Lee.
- Holding a Baby.
- The Spanish Mother.
- An Engineer’s Ride on a Piano.
- The World’s Hero.
- The Coquette.
- Experience with a Refractory Cow.
- Mary, Queen of Scots.
- The Yankee Still Ahead.
- Tommy’s Deathbed.
- Going to Market.
- The Merry Sunflower.
- Hints on Expression.
- The Crowning of the Sunday-School Angel.
- [233]The Calls of the Bells.
- Dorothy Clyde;
- A Dog Story.
- Exercise in Pronunciation.
- The Moon.
- The Suicide.
- The Felon’s Wife.
- Little Christel.
- The Ballad of Breakneck.
- The Chemist to his Love.
- A Wayward Life.
- The Little Torment.
- The Stars.
- Why She didn’t Stay in the Poorhouse.
- “Bill” the Engineer.
- The True Remedy.
- Wanted—A Wife.
- Back to Griggsby’s.
- The Old Spinster.
- A String of Broken Beads; or, Jingles from Favorite Authors.
- The Legend of Wissahickon.
- A New Mother.
- Richard Dingle’s Speech.
- Word Pictures.
- The Meeting at Wendletown.
- Petruchio’s Widow.
- [372]The Proud Flag of Freedom.
- Lost in the Mountains.
- Maiden Song.
- Lecture by One of the Sex.
- Enguerrande’s Child.
- The King’s Kiss.[414]
- Contrasts in Shakespeare.
- Merry Mike.
- The Village Choir.
- The Book Agent Beats the Bandit.
- Not in the Ranks.
- The Old Actor’s Story.
- Ben Hassan’s Dream.
- Six o’Clock.
- Charlie’s Story.
- The Months.
- Uncle Ned’s Tale.
- Read This if You Can.
- The Ivy-Clad Ruin.[510]
- “Yes, I’m Guilty.”
- The Enchanted Shirt.
- Fra Giacomo.
- A Grain of Truth.
- The Corsican.
- All Wrong.
- Go Fan Yourself.
- Nell.
- A Soldier’s Offering.
- The Ruling Passion.
- I’m Getting Too Big to Kiss.
- Waiting for the Mail.
- Ben-Hur’s Chariot Race.
- Dolores.
- Scene from Merchant of Venice.
- Thora.
- Valley Forge.
- How “Ruby” Played.
- Nydia, the Blind Girl of Pompeii.
- The Dream of Eugene Aram.
- One Day Solitary.[1151]
- Meg Merrilies.
- The Dukite Snake.
- Mad.
- A Woman’s Vengeance.
- The Dream of Aldarin.
- The Death of Uncle Tom.
- “Swore Off.”
- The Unknown Speaker.
- JUVENILES.
- The Boy and the Boot.
- Farewell Old Shoe.
- Tale of a Dog and a Bee.
- Little Foxes.
- For a Little Girl.
- An Oration for a Boy.
- “They Say.”
- Nobody’s Dog.
- Johnny’s Soliloquy.
- The Wind in a Frolic.
- The Speckled Hen.
- The New Baby.
- Katie’s Wants.
- Queer Little Stitches.
- The Nose Out of Joint.
- Valedictory.
- Presentation Speech.
- Little Millie’s Declamation.
- The Only Child.
- Lulu’s Complaint.
- Little Tommie’s First Smoke.
- The Elf-Child.
- CONTENTS.
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