Pieces People Ask For Serious, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic, and Dramatic Selections in Prose and Poetry for Reading and Recitations

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Title: Pieces People Ask For Serious, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic, and Dramatic Selections in Prose and Poetry for Reading and Recitations

Release Date: 2018-04-21

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Pieces People Ask For

SERIOUS, HUMOROUS, PATHETIC, PATRIOTIC,
AND DRAMATIC SELECTIONS IN
PROSE AND POETRY

FOR

READINGS AND RECITATIONS

EDITED BY
GEORGE M. BAKER

BOSTON

WALTER H. BAKER & CO.

1909

Pieces People Ask For

[Pg 3]

Contents

PART I
“Bay Billy”	Frank H. Gassaway	98
Because	Boston Transcript	33
The Book Canvasser		78
Casabianca (Colored)		43
A Centre-board Yacht-race	George A. Stockwell	67
The Christening	E. T. Corbett	37
The Coming Wave	Oliver Optic	82
Counting Eggs	Texas Siftings	64
Cut, Cut Behind	Charles Follen Adams	45
The Deacon’s Ride	Mary C. Huntington	59
The Death of D’Assas	Mary E. Vandyne	24
Decoration Day	Mary Bassett Hussey	54
The Driver of Ninety-three	Sarah K. Bolton	8
The Engineer’s Story	Eugene J. Hall	81
The Fall	Thomas Hood	66
Filling His Place	Maria L. Eve	40
The Flag	James Jeffrey Roche	32
The Heritage	James Russell Lowell	42
Hiring Help	Mrs. S. E. Dawes	102
The House in the Meadow	Louise Chandler Moulton	15
How the Ransom was Paid	W. R. Rose	10
Jem’s Last Ride	Mary A. P. Stansbury	88
The Labor Question	Wendell Phillips	29
The Light from Over the Range		5
A Little Peach		17
A Lost Child	Anna F. Burnham	86
Love and Philosophy	Geo. Runde Jackson	30 [Pg 4]
Malaria		74
Mary’s Lamb on a New Principle		44
The Man with the Musket	H. S. Taylor	27
Metamora to the Council		9
Missing		53
The Mississippi Miracle	Irwin Russell	70
Mr. Pickwick’s Romantic Adventure
with a Middle-aged Lady in
Yellow Curl-Papers	Dickens	18
Over the Crossin’	Springfield Republican	92
Puzzled		76
The Rajah’s Clock	Theron Brown	57
Re-enlisted	Lucy Larcom	11
Scene from “Ion”	Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd	46
She Stood on the Stair	Puck	13
The Silver Bell	Mrs. Julia D. Pratt	63
Somehow or Other		94
The Story of Sir Arnulph	Gerald Massey	85
Taters	W. O. Eaton	96
Together on the Stairs	Andrew G. Tubbs	35
A Tough Customer	William L. Keese	28
“An Unknown Man, Respectably Dressed”	Helen Jackson	97
The Village Choir	Audre’s Journal	39
Wendell Phillips	John Boyle O’Reilly	72
When Greek met Greek		56
When McGue puts the Baby to Sleep		87
PART II [Pg 5]
After “Taps”	Horace B. Sargent	78
At Arlington	James R. Randall	15
At the Rising of the Moon	Leo Casey	12
Aunt Parson’s Story	Presbyterian Journal	48
Aunt Sophronia Tabor at the Opera		36
Biddy’s Philosophy	R. H. Stoddard	102
The Bravest Boy in Town	Emma H. Nason,
	in Wide Awake	23
Brer Rabbit and the Butter	Harris	26
Cicely and the Bears

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