MINSTREL JOKES AND STUMP SPEECHES
Dick's Stump Speeches and Minstrel Jokes. Containing Short and side-splitting Negro Acts and Farces, Eccentric Sketches, Stump Speeches, Darkey Lectures, End-Men's Jokes and Gags, Burlesque Sermons, Funny Dialogues, and everything necessary for a series of first-class Minstrel Entertainments; including the latest excruciations of modern Negro-Minstrelsy, and a number of startling originalities, risible rib-ticklers and hysterical button-starters.
Dick's Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches. Containing an inexhaustible collection of End-Men's Jokes.
Negro Interludes and Farces;
Fresh Dialogues for Interlocutor and Banjo;
New Stump Speeches;
Humorous Lectures;
Dialect Sketches and Eccentricities;
Dialogues and Repartee for Interlocutor and Bones;
Quaint Burlesque Sermons;
Jokes, Quips and Gags.
Tambo's End-Men's Minstrel Gags. Containing some of the best jokes and repartees of the most celebrated "burnt cork" performers of our day. Tambo and Bones in all sorts and manner of scrapes. Also containing a rich collection of Darkey Dialogues, Sketches, Plantation Scenes, Eccentric Doings, Humorous Lectures, Laughable Interludes, Burlesque Stump Speeches, Mirth-provoking Witticisms, Conundrums, Yarns, Plantation Songs and Dances, etc., etc. Everything new and rich.
Brudder Bones' Book of Stump Speeches and Burlesque Orations. Also containing Humorous Lectures, Ethiopian Dialogues, Plantation Scenes, Negro Farces and Burlesques, Laughable Interludes and Comic Recitations, interspersed with Dutch, Irish, French and Yankee Stories. This book contains some of the best hits and mirth-provoking jokes and repartees of the most celebrated End-Men of the day. Paper covers.
Howard's Book of Conundrums and Riddles. Containing over 1,200 of the best Conundrums, Riddles, Enigmas, Ingenious Catches and Amusing Sells ever invented. This splendid collection of curious paradoxes will afford the material for a never-ending feast of fun and amusement. Any person, with the assistance of this book, may take the lead in entertaining a company, and keep them in roars of laughter for hours together.
Rowan's Riddles and Conundrums. A very choice gathering of Ancient, Modern, and quite recent Riddles and Conundrums, quaintly arranged, for amusement and merriment on opportune occasions. A first-rate pocket companion for Picnics and Winter Evenings.
15 cts.
Dick's Book of Alphabets. Containing a great variety of designs for plain and Fanciful Alphabets, Numerals and illuminated Initial letters in various colors, and elegant in style. It includes specimens of modern Ornamental designs, and of the ancient grotesque, Arabesque, and other eccentric devices for decoration and illumination, mainly gathered from rare old vellums and scarce books of past centuries. This work will be appreciated by Architects, Decorators, Designers, Draughtsmen, etc.
GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS
Dick's Parlor Exhibitions, and How to Make them Successful. Containing complete and detailed directions for preparing and arranging Parlor Exhibitions and Amateur Performances. It includes:
Tableaux Vivants.
Living Portraits.
Living Statuary.
Dame History's Peep Show.
Shadow Pantomimes.
Popular Ballads illustrated by appropriate action.
Charades of all kinds.
Parlor Pantomimes.
Punch and Judy.
AND FIFTY OTHER DIVERTING PARLOR PASTIMES AND AMUSEMENTS
It contains also a full Catalogue of the Celebrated "Art Exhibition," and a practical treatise on the wonderful Science of Second Sight.
This work is thoroughly practical and gives the fullest instructions for preparing and lighting the stage, the construction of the Frames for Living Portraits, and shows how each performance can be presented with complete success. It is illustrated with numerous engravings explaining the text.
Dick's One Hundred Amusements for Evening Parties, Picnics and Social Gatherings. This book is full of Original Novelties. It contains: New and Attractive Games, clearly illustrated by means of Witty Examples, showing how each may be most successfully played. Surpassing Tricks, easy of performance. Musical and other innocent sells. A variety of new and ingenious puzzles. Comical illusions, fully described. These surprising and grotesque illusions, are very startling in their effects, and present little or no difficulty in their preparation.
ALSO A NEW VERSION OF THE CELEBRATED "MRS. JARLEY'S WAX WORKS"
The Book of Fireside Games. Containing an explanation of a variety of Witty, Rollicking, Entertaining and Innocent Games and Amusing Forfeits, suited to the Family Circle as a Recreation. This book is just the thing for social gatherings, parties and picnics.
The Book Of 50 °Curious Puzzles. A collection of Curious Puzzles and Paradoxes, Deceptions in Numbers, Amusing Tricks in Geometry; illustrated with a great variety of engravings.
How to Amuse an Evening Party. A Complete collection of Home Recreations. Profusely Illustrated with over Two Hundred fine wood-cuts, containing Round Games and Forfeit Games, Parlor Magic and Curious Puzzles, Comic Diversions and Parlor Tricks, Scientific Recreations and Evening Amusements.
Book of Riddles and 500 Home Amusements. Containing a curious collection of Riddles, Charades and Enigmas; Rebuses, Anagrams and Transpositions; Conundrums and Amusing Puzzles: Recreations in Arithmetic, and Queer Sleights, and numerous other Entertaining Amusements. Illustrated with 60 engravings.
⁂ Any of the above may be had bound in boards. Price 50 cts
The Secret Out; or 1,000 Tricks with Cards, and Other Recreations. Illustrated with over 300 engravings. A book which explains all the Tricks and Deceptions with Playing Cards ever known, and gives, besides, a great many new ones. The whole being described so carefully, with engravings to illustrate them, that anybody can easily learn how to perform them. This work also contains 240 of the best Tricks of Legerdemain, in addition to the Card Tricks.
Dick's Dutch, French and Yankee Dialect Recitations. An unsurpassed Collection of Droll Dutch Blunders, Frenchmen's Funny Mistakes, and Ludicrous and Extravagant Yankee Yarns, each Recitation being in its own dialect.
DUTCH DIALECT
Der Mule Shtood on der Steamboad Deck.
Go Vay, Becky Miller.
Der Drummer.
Mygel Snyder's Barty.
Snyder's Nose.
Dyin' Vords of Isaac.
Fritz und I.
Betsey und I Hafe Bust Ub.
Schneider sees Leah.
Dot Funny Leetle Baby.
Schnitzerl's Philosopede.
Der Dog und der Lobster.
Schlosser's Ride.
Mine Katrine.
Maud Muller.
Ein Deutsches Lied.
Hans and Fritz.
Schneider's Tomatoes.
Deitsche Advertisement.
Vas Bender Henshpecked.
Life, Liberty and Lager.
Der Goot Lookin' Shnow.
Mr. Schmidt's Mistake.
Home Again.
Dot Surprise Party.
Der Wreck of der Hezberus.
Isaac Rosenthal on the Chinese Question.
Hans Breitmann's Party.
Shoo Flies.
A Dutchman's Answer.
How Jake Schneider Went Blind.
I Vash so Glad I Vash Here.
The Dutchman and the Yankee.
How the Dutchman Killed the Woodchuck.
Der Nighd Pehind Grisdmas.
The Dutchman's Snake.
Yoppy's Varder und Hees Drubbles.
Dhree Shkaders.
Katrina Likes Me Poody Vell.
Hans in a Fix.
Leedle Yawcob Strauss.
How a Dutchman was Done.
Dot Lambs vot Mary Haf Got.
The Yankee and the Dutchman's Dog.
Zwei Lager.
Schneider's Ride.
The Dutchman and the Small-pox.
Tiamondts on der Prain.
A Dutchman's Testimony in a Steamboat Case.
Hans Breitmann and the Turners.
FRENCH DIALECT
The Frenchman's Dilemma; or, Number Five Collect Street.
The Frenchman's Revenge.
Noozell and the Organ Grinder.
How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull.
Mr. Rogers and Monsieur Denise.
The Frenchman and the Landlord.
The Frenchman and the Sheep's Trotters.
A Frenchman's Account of the Fall.
I Vant to Fly.
The Generous Frenchman.
The Frenchman and the Flea Powder.
The Frenchman and the Rats.
Monsieur Tonson.
Vat You Please.
The Frenchman and the Mosquitoes.
The Frenchman's Patent Screw.
The Frenchman's Mistake.
Monsieur Mocquard Between Two Fires.
YANKEE DIALECT
Mrs. Bean's Courtship.
Hez and the Landlord.
Squire Billings' Pickerel.
Deacon Thrush in Meeting.
The Yankee Fireside.
Peter Sorghum in Love.
Mrs. Smart Learns how to Skate.
Capt. Hurricane Jones on the Miracles.
The Dutchman and the Yankee.
The Yankee Landlord.
The Bewitched Clock.
The Yankee and the Dutchman's Dog.
Aunt Hetty on Matrimony.
The Courtin'.
Ebenezer on a Bust.
Sut Lovingood's Shirt.
This Collection contains all the best dialect pieces that are incidentally scattered through a large number of volumes of "Recitations and Readings," besides new and excellent sketches never before published.
Dick's Irish Dialect Recitations. A carefully compiled Collection of Rare Irish Stories, Comic, Poetical and Prose Recitations, Humorous Letters and Funny Recitals, all told with the irresistible Humor of the Irish dialect. Containing
Biddy's Troubles.
Birth of St. Patrick, The.
Connor.
Dermot O'Dowd.
Dick Macnamara's Matrimonial Adventures.
Dying Confession of Paddy M'Cabe.
Father Molloy.
Father Phil Blake's Collection.
Father Roach.
Fight of Hell-Kettle, The.
Handy Andy's Little Mistakes.
How Dennis Took the Pledge.
How Pat Saved his Bacon.
Irish Astronomy.
Irish Coquetry.
Irish Drummer, The.
Irish Letter, An.
Irish Philosopher, The.
Irish Traveler, The.
Irishman's Panorama, The.
Jimmy McBride's Letter.
Jimmy Butler and the Owl.
King O'Toole and St. Kevin.
Kitty Malone.
Love in the Kitchen.
Micky Free and the Priest.
Miss Malony on the Chinese Question.
Mr. O'Hoolahan's Mistake.
Paddy Blake's Echo.
Paddy Fagan's Pedigree.
Paddy McGrath and the Bear.
Paddy O'Rafther.
Paddy the Piper.
Paddy's Dream.
Pat and the Fox.
Pat and the Gridiron.
Pat and his Musket.
Pat and the Oysters.
Pat's Criticism.
Pat's Letter.
Pat O'Flanigan's Colt.
Patrick O'Rouke and the Frogs.
Paudeen O'Rafferty's Say Voyage.
Peter Mulrooney and the Black Filly.
Phaidrig Crohoore.
Rory O'More's Present to the Priest.
St. Kevin.
Teddy O'Toole's Six Bulls.
Wake of Tim O'Hara, The.
Widow Cummiskey, The.
This Collection contains, in addition to new and original pieces, all the very best Recitations in the Irish dialect that can be gathered from a whole library of "Recitation" books. It is full of sparkling witticisms and it furnishes also a fund of entertaining matter for perusal in leisure moments.
Tambo's End-Men's Minstrel Gags. Containing some of the best Jokes and Repartees of the most celebrated "burnt cork" performers of our day. Tambo and Bones in all sorts and manner of scrapes. This Book is full of Burnt-Cork Drolleries, Funny Stories, Colored Conundrums, Gags and Witty Repartee, all the newest side-splitting conversations between Tambo, Bones, and the Interlocutor, and will be found useful alike to the professional and amateur performer. Contents:
A Bird that can't be Plucked
Annihilating Time
At Last
Bashful
Bet, The
Big Fortune, A
Blackberrying
Black Swan, The
Bones and his little Game
Bones and the Monkey Tricks
Bones as a Fortune Teller
Bones as a Legitimate Actor
Bones as a Pilot
Bones as a Prize Fighter
Bones as a "Stugent"
Bones as a Traveler
Bones as a Victim to the Pen
Bones as a Walkist
Bones assists at the Performance of a New Piece
Bones attends a Seance
Bones finds Himself Famous
Bones gets Dunned
Bones gets Stuck
Bones has a Small Game with the Parson
Bones' Horse Race
Bones in an Affair of Honor
Bones In Love
Bones keeps a Boarding House
Bones on the War Path
Bones on George Washington
Bones on the Light Fantastic
Bones Opens a Spout Shop
Bones Plays O'Fella
Bones sees a Ghost
Bones Slopes with Sukey Sly
Bones tells a "Fly" Story
Brother will come home tonight
Bones as a Carpet Bagger
Bones as an Inkslinger
Bones in a New Character
Bones in Clover
Bones' Love Scrape
"Cullud" Ball, The
Conundrums
Curious Boy
Dancing Mad
Dat's What I'd Like to Know
Definitions
De Mudder of Inwention
Difference, The
Don't Kiss every Puppy
"Far Away in Alabam'"
First White Man, The
Fishy Argument
Four-Eleven-Forty-Four
Four Meetings, The
From the Polks
Girl at the Sewing Machine
Hard Times
Hard to take a Hint
Heavy Spell, A
Highfalutin'
Horrible!
How Bones became a Minstrel
How Tambo took his Bitters
How to do it
Impulsive Oration
Inquisitive
Jeallusest of her Sect
Legal Problem, A
Liberal Discount for Cash
Manager in a Fix, The
Mathematics
Merry Life, A
Momentous Question
Mosquitoes
Music
Notes
Ob Course
Our Shop Girls
Pomp and Ephy Green
Presidency on de Brain
Proposed Increase of Taxes
Railroad Catastrophe
Reality versus Romance
Rough on Tambo
Sassy Sam and Susie Long
School's In
Shakespeare with a Vengeance
Simple Sum in Arithmetic
Sleighing in the Park
Sliding Down the Hill
Style
Sublime
Swearing by Proxy
Tambo's Traveling Agent
That Dear Old Home
"The Pervisions, Jostar"
Thieves
Tonsorial
Toast, A
Uncle Eph's Lament
Waiting to See Him Off
You Bet
And 40 popular songs and dances.
McBride's Comic Speeches and Recitations. Designed for Schools, Literary and Social Circles. By H. Elliott McBride, Author of "McBride's Humorous Dialogues," etc., etc. This is one of the very best series of original speeches, in Yankee, Darkey, Spread-Eagle and village styles, with a number of diverting addresses and recitations, and funny stories, forming an excellent volume of selections for supplying the humorous element of an exhibition. Contents:
A Burst of Indignation
Disco'se by a Colored Man
A Trumpet Sarmon
Sarmon on Skilletvillers
Nancy Matilda Jones
Hezekiah's Proposal
About the Billikinses
Betsy and I are Out Once More
A Stump Speech
About Katharine
Deborah Doolittle's Speech on Women's Rights
A Salutatory
A Mournful Story
An Address to Schoolboys
Zachariah Popp's Courtship and Marriage
A Sad Story
How to Make Hasty Pudding
My Matilda Jane
Courtship, Marriage, Separation and Reunion
Lecture by a Yankee
A Colored Man's Disco'se on Different Subjects
A Girl's Address to Boys
McSwinger's Fate
Peter Peabody's Stump Speech
Mr. Styx Rejoices on Account of a New Well Spring
Victuals and Drink
Speech by Billy Higgins on the Destruction of His Rambo Apple Tree
A Boy's Address to Young Ladies
An Old Man's Address to Young Wives
Salu-ta-tat-n-a-ry
Valedictory.
Beecher's Recitations and Readings. Humorous, Serious, Dramatic. Designed for Public and Private Exhibitions. Contents:
Miss Maloney at the Dentist's
Lost and Found
Mygel Snyder's Barty
Magdalena
Jim Wolfe and the Cats
The Woolen Doll
The Charity Dinner
Go-Morrow or, Lot's Wife
The Wind and the Moon
Dyin' Words of Isaac
Maude Muller in Dutch
Moses the Sassy
Yarn of the "Nancy Bell"
Paddy the Piper
Schneider sees "Leah"
Caldwell of Springfield
Artemus Ward's Panorama
Tale of a Servant Girl
How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull
Tiamondts on der Prain
King Robert of Sicily
Gloverson the Mormon
De Pint wid Ole Pete
Pat and the Pig
The Widow Bedott's Letter
The Cry of the Children
The Dutchman and the Small-pox
Sculpin
Rats – Descriptive Recitation
A Reader Introduces Himself to an Audience
A Dutchman's Dolly Varden
"Rock of Ages"
Feeding the Black Fillies
The Hornet
The Glove and the Lions
I Vant to Fly
That Dog of Jim Smiley's
The Faithful Soul
"My New Pittayatees"
Mary Ann's Wedding
An Inquiring Yankee
The Three Bells
Love in a Balloon
Mrs. Brown on the Streets
Shoo Flies
Discourse by the Rev. Mr. Bosan
Without the Children
Signor Billsmethi's Dancing Academy
Der Goot Lookin Shnow
The Jumping Frog
The Lost Chord
The Tale of a Leg
That West-side Dog
How Dennis Took the Pledge
The Fisherman's Summons
Badger's Debut as Hamlet
Hezekiah Stole the Spoons
Paddy's Dream
Victuals and Drink
How Jake Schneider Went Blind
Aurelia's Young Man
Mrs. Brown on Modern Houses
Farm Yard Song
Murphy's Pork Barrel
The Prayer Seeker
An Extraordinary Phenomenon
The Case of Young Bangs
A Mule Ride in Florida
Dhree Shkaders
Dick's Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches. Containing the following Rich Collection of Negro Dialogues, Scenes, Farces, End-Men's Jokes, Gags, Rollicking Stories, Excruciating Conundrums, Questions and Answers for Bones, Tambo and Interlocutor, etc. Contents:
I's Gwine to Jine de Masons
Jes' Nail dat Mink to de Stable Do' – Oration
But the Villain still Pursued Her – A Thrilling Tale
Bones at a Free-and-Easy
Buncombe Speech
Shakespeare Improved
End Gag – Bones and Tambo
A Man of Nerve – Comic Sketch
End Gag – Bones and Tambo
Uncle Pete – Darkey Sketch
The Rival Darkeys
The Stage-Struck Darkey
Add Ryman's Fourth of July Oration
Absent-Mindedness – Bones and Tambo
Don't Call a Man a Liar
The Mysterious Darkey
Rev Uncle Jim's Sermon
The 'Possum-Run Debating Society
Tim Murphy's Irish Stew
Brudder Bones in Love – Interlocutor and Bones
'Lixey: or, The Old Gum Game – Negro Scene
Brudder Bones' Duel
Brudder Bones' Sweetheart
Brudder Bones in Hard Luck
Two Left-Bones and Tambo
Speech on Boils
How Bones Cured a Smoky Chimney
Sermon on Keards, Hosses, Fiddlers, etc.
Huggin' Lamp-Posts
Not Opposed to Matrimony
How Pat Sold a Dutchman
The Coopers – one Act Farce
Questions Easily Answered – Bones and Tambo
Examination in Natural History – Minstrel Dialogue
O'Quirk's Sinecure
The Widower's Speech
Bones at a Raffle
Uncle Pete's Sermon
Bones at a Soiree – Interlocutor and Bones
Speech on Woman's Rights
Bones' Discovery
Mark Twain Introduces Himself – Characteristic Speech
Speech on Happiness
Burnt Corkers – Minstrel Dialogue
The Nervous Woman
The Five Senses – Minstrel Dialogue
The Dutchman's Experience
Essay on the Wheelbarrow
Bones at a Pic-Nic
The Virginia Mummy – Negro Farce
Brudder Bones in Clover
Artemus Ward's Advice to Husbands
Where the Lion Roareth, and the Wang-Doodle Mourneth
Romeo and Juliet in 1880
Artemus Ward's Panorama
Brudder Bones as a Carpet-Bagger – Interlocutor and Bones
Major Jones' Fourth of July Oration
Curiosities for a Museum – Minstrel Dialogue
Burlesque Oration on Matrimony
Brudder Bones on the Raging Canawl
The Snackin'-Turtle Man – Ethiopian Sketch
Bones' Dream – Ethiopian Sketch
Come and Hug Me
Widow O'Brien's Toast
Scenes at the Police Court – Musical Minstrel Dialogue
Brudder Bones as a Log-Roller
De Pint Wid Old Pete – Negro Dialect Recitation
A Touching Appeal – Dutch Dialect Recitation
Wounded in the Corners
Darkey Dialogue
End Gag – Interlocutor and Bones
Kavanaugh's New Speeches and Dialogues for Young Children. Containing easy pieces in plain language, readily understood by little children, and expressly adapted for School Exhibitions and Christmas and other juvenile celebrations. By Mrs. Russell Kavanaugh. This is an entirely new series of Recitations and Dialogues by this author, and full of pieces, in her well-known style of familiar simplicity, admirably calculated to give the little ones additional opportunities to distinguish themselves before an audience. It contains the following:
Howard's Recitations. Comic, Serious and Pathetic. Collection of fresh Recitations in Prose and Poetry, suitable for Anniversaries, Exhibitions, Social Gatherings, and Evening Parties. Contents:
Miss Malony on the Chinese Question
Kit Carson's Ride
Buck Fanshaw's Funeral
Knocked About
Puzzled Dutchman
Shamus O'Brien
Naughty Little Girl
Bells of Shandon
No Sect in Heaven
Rory O'Moore's Present
"Mother's Fool"
Queen Elizabeth – a Comic Oration
The Starling
Lord Dundreary's Riddle
The Stuttering Lass
The Irish Traveler
The Remedy as Bad as the Disease
A Subject for Dissection
The Heathen Chinee
Mona's Waters
A Showman on the Woodchuck
How Happy I'll Be
A Frenchman's Account of the Fall
Isabel's Grave
Parson and the Spaniel
An Irishman's Letter
Irish Letter
The Halibut in Love
The Merry Soap-Boiler
The Unbeliever
The Voices at the Throne
Dundreary Proposing
The Fireman
Paul Revere's Ride
Annie and Willie's Prayer
A Frenchman on Macbeth
The New Church Organ
Katrina Likes me Poody Vell
How to Save a Thousand Pounds
How I Got Invited to Dinner
Patient Joe
Jimmy Butler and the Owl
The Menagerie
Old Quizzle
Infidel and Quaker
The Lawyer and the Chimney-Sweeper
Bill Mason's Bride
Judging by Appearances
The Death's Head
Betsey and I are Out
Betsey Destroys the Paper
Father Blake's Collection
Blank Verse in Rhyme
Roguery Taught
Banty Tim
Antony and Cleopatra
Deacon Hezekiah
The Frenchman and the Landlord
The Family Quarrel – A Dialogue on the Sixteenth Amendment
The Guess
Atheist and Acorn
Brother Watkins
Hans in a Fix
To-Morrow
The Highgate Butcher
The Lucky Call
Challenging the Foreman
Country Schoolmaster
The Matrimonial Bugs and the Travelers
Peter Sorghum in Love
Tim Tuff
Nick Van Stann
The Debating Society
Deacon Stokes
To Our Honored Dead
The Dying Soldier
The Yankee Fireside
The Suicidal Cat
The Son's Wish
Spencer's Book of Comic Speeches and Humorous Recitations. A collection of Comic Speeches and Dialogues, Dramatic Scenes and Characteristic Soliloquies and Stories Suitable for School Exhibitions. Contents:
Comic Prologue and Introduction
The Yankee Landlord
His Eye was Stern
The Goddess of Slang
Dick, the Apprentice
Courting in French Hollow
The Case Altered
Fox and the Ranger
The Declaration
The Warrantee Deed
A Night's Adventure
Julia – Comic Love Scene
Saying not Meaning
Negro Burlesque for 3 males
The Nimmers
Gucom and the Back-log
Widow Bedott's Mistake
How a Bashful Lover "Popped the Question"
Crossing Dixie
My Last Shirt
The Three Black Crows
The Barber's Shop
Paddy O'Rafther
Decidedly Cool
Frenchman and the Rats
The Jester Condemned to Death
Kindred Quacks
Hans Breitmann's Party
The Generous Frenchman
Saint Jonathan
Stump Speech
The Rival Lodgers
The Frenchman and the Mosquitoes
The Maiden's Mishap
The Removal
Talking Latin
Praying for Rain
Darkey Photographer
Paddy and his Musket
Hezekiah Bedoit
Uncle Reuben's Tale
Mr. Caudle has been to a Fair
Chemist and his Love
Disgusted Dutchman
The Frightened Traveler
Jewess and her Son
Clerical Wit – True Lies
The School House
Daniel versus Dishclout
Spectacles
The Pig
A Stray Parrot
Dame Fredegonde
Toby Tosspot
Courtship and Matrimony
Rings and Seals
The Biter Bit
Pat and the Gridiron
Barmecide's Feast
The Country Pedagogue
The Middle-aged Man and Two Widows
Saratoga Waiter – Negro Scene for 2 males
The Wrangling Pair – A Poetical Dialogue for Male and Female
A Connubial Eclogue
The Italian from Cork
Gasper Schnapps' Exploit
Epilogue – Suitable for Conclusion of an Entertainment
Martine's Droll Dialogues and Laughable Recitations. A collection of Humorous Dialogues, Comic Recitations and Spirited Stump Speeches and Farces, adapted for School and other Celebrations. Contents:
Hints to Amateur Actors.
Humorous Poetical Address
The Bell and the Gong
Mrs. Dove's Boarding House
The Wilkins Family
The Lawyer's Stratagem
Eulogy on Laughing
Drawing a Long Bow. For 3 males and 1 female.
The Origin of Woman's Ascendency over Man
Veny Raynor's Bear Story
The Game of Life
The Fortune Hunter. For 2 males and 3 females
The Parson and the Widow
Hezekiah Stubbins' Fourth of July Oration
Make your Wills. Farce for 7 male characters
Mr. Rogers and Monsieur Denise
Job Trotter's Secret
The Darkey Debating Society. Dialogue for 2 males
The Scandal Monger. Dialogue for 2 males and 2 females
Poor Richard's Sayings
Prologue to "The Apprentice"
Address in the character of "Hope" A Prologue
Parody on the Declaration of Independence
Bombastes Furioso. A Burlesque for 7 males
Characteristic Address
Examining de Bumps. Ethiopian Dialogue for 2 males
Election Stump Speech
A Matrimonial Tiff. Dialogue for 1 male and 2 females
The Frenchman and the Sheep's Trotters
The Poor Relation. Comic Drama for 7 males
Vat you Please
The Babes in the Wood. For 3 males and 4 females.
My Aunt.
Handy Andy's Mistakes.
The Cat Eater.
A Shocking Mistake. Dialogue for 3 males and 2 females
Wanted a Governess
Rival Broom Makers
Paudeen O'Rafferty's Say-Voyage
Mr. Caudle's Wedding Dinner
Our Cousins. Negro Dialogue for 2 male characters
Mr. Caudle made a Mason
Address of Sergeant Buzfuz
The Wonderful Whalers
Sam Weller's Valentine
Wilson's Book of Recitations and Dialogues. Containing a choice selection of Poetical and Prose Recitations. Designed as an Assistant to Teachers and Students in preparing Exhibitions. By Floyd B. Wilson, Professor of Elocution. Contents:
Instruction In Elocution
Dedication of Gettysburg Cemetery
Sheridan's Ride
There's but one Pair of Stockings
Modulation
Drummer Boy's Burial
John Maynard, the Pilot
The Boys
The Duel
Lochiel's Warning
Socrates Snooks
Mosaic Poetry
Burial of the Champion of his Class at Yale College
Scott and the Veteran
Barbara Frietchie
I Wouldn't – Would You?
The Professor Puzzled
Thanatopsis
The Two Roads
The Pawnbroker's Shop
The Sophomore's Soliloquy
The Nation's Hymn
Address to a Skeleton
A Glass of Cold Water
Little Gretchen; or New Year's Eve
Good News from Ghent
The Sea Captain's Story
Our Heroes
The Closing Year
Burial of Little Nell
The Picket Guard
The Poor Man and the Fiend
Our Country's Call
The Conquered Banner
The High Tide; or, the Brides of Enderby
Death of Gaudentis
Don Garzia
Past Meridian
The Founding of Gettysburg Monument
Spartacus to the Gladiators
Soliloquy of the Dying Alchemist
The Country Justice
Unjust National Acquisition
Dimes and Dollars
Dead Drummer Boy
Home
Responsibility of American Citizens
The Jester's Sermon
Left on the Battle Field
The American Flag
Oh! Why should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud?
Parrhasius
The Vagabonds
A Bridal Wine Cup
Blanche of Devan's Last Words
Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles
A Psalm of the Union
Charge of a Dutch Magistrate
Stars in my Country's Sky
Bingen on the Rhine
Religious Character of President Lincoln
The Raven
The Loyal Legion
Agnes and the Years
Cataline's Defiance
Our Folks
The Beautiful Snow
The Ambitious Youth
The Flag of Washington
The Abbot of Waltham
Ode to an Infant Son
The Scholar's Mission
Claude Melnotte's Apology
Forging of the Anchor
Wreck of the Hesperus
The Man of Ross
No Work the Hardest Work
What is Time?
Brutus's Oration over the Body of Lucretia
What is That, Mother?
A Colloquy with Myself
St. Philip Neri and the Youth
The Chameleon
Henry the Fourth's Soliloquy on Sleep
On Procrastination
Appendix
Brudder Bones' Book of Stump Speeches and Burlesque Orations. Also containing Humorous Lectures, Ethiopian Dialogues, Plantation Scenes, Negro Farces and Burlesques, Laughable Interludes and Comic Recitations. Contents: