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CONTENTS OF No. 3.

CONTENTS OF

No. 4.

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Absence.

CONTENTS OF No. 5.

Affectation in the Pulpit.
Ambition.
Annabel Lee.

Annie and Willie's Prayer.
Atheist, The.

At the Window.-An Extract.
A. Ward among the Shakers.
Balance-Wheel, The.
Battle of Ivry, The.
Eill and Joe.

Blacksmith of Ragenbach.
Blacksmith's Story, The.
Blue and the Gray, The.
Cataline Expelled.
Cataline to his Army.
Char-co-o-al.
Chicago.

Child's Dream of a Star, A.
Colfax on "Temperance."
Comical Dun, A.
Compensation.

Cousin Sally Dilliard.
Crape on the Door.
Crossing the Carry.
Darkey's Counsel to the
ly Married.

Existence of a God, The.
Gape-Seed.

Give me Back my Husband.
Golden Shoes.
Harmosar.

Hotspur's Defence.

Over the Hills from the Poor.
House.

Perversion of the Bible.
Peter's Ride to the Wedding.
Phantom Isles, The.

Poor Player at the Gate, The

How Betsey and I Made Up. Power of Habit, The.
Indians, The.

Infamous Legislation.
Irish Letter, An.

Is it Anybody's Business.

It is Well we cannot See, etc.
Joe.

John Maynard.

Knight and the Lady, The.
Knocked About.

Lament of Jacob Gray, The.
Learning to Pray.

Little Church 'round the Cor-

ner.

Love Lightens Labor.

Mark Twain's "Jim Smiley."
Modulation.

Moneyless Man, The.
Mouse-Hunting.

New-Mr. Caudle has Lent Five
Pounds to a Friend.
Nantucket Skipper, The.
New Thanatopsis.

Death of an Inebriate.
Deborah Lee.-A Parody.
Deeds versus Creeds.
Dors.
Drafted.

Duellist's Honor, The.
Dying Boy, The.
Dying Brigand, The.

Address to a Mummy.
All's for the Best.
merica.

Now I Lay me Down to Sleep.
Old School-House, The.
Old Yankee Farmer, The.
One Night with Gin.
On the Town.
Our Folks.

CONTENTS OF

Answer of the Mummy.
Answer to "I am Dying."
Are the Children at Home?
A. Ward on Woman's Rights,
Bill Mason's Bride.
California Obituary.
Catastrophe, A.
Charcoal Man, The.

Claude Melnotte's Apology.
Conscience and Judgment.
David Copperfield and his

Child-Wife.

Deacon Hezekiah.
Deacon's Story, The.
Deaf as a Post.

Death of Gaudentis.
Dermot's Parting.
Difficulty about that Dog.
Dirge.

Doctor and his Apples, The.
Dream of "Fat Contributor."
Dreams and Realities.
Drunkard's Death, The.
Duty of an American Schol-

аг.

Dying Alchemist, The.
Eleventh Hour, The.
Eloquence.
Emblems.

Engineer's Story, The.
Eulogy on Lafayette.
Examples for Ireland.
Faithful Lovers, The.

Prayer and Potatoes.
Press On.

Public Virtue.
Purest Pearl, The.
Putting up Stoves.
Puzzled Dutchman, The.
Railroad Car Scene, A.
Rescue of Chicago, The.
River, The.
Saved.

Seven Ages of Man.
Shepherd of the People, The.
Slight Misunderstanding, A.
Song of the Dying, The.
Sorrow for the Dead.
Teaching Public School.
There is no Death.
Thoughts of "Enoch Arden."
Tomb of Washington, The.
Value of Reputation.
Vision of Immortality, The.
What Does it Matter.
What the Old Man Said.
Whiskers. The.

Worth of Eloquence, The.
Wounded Soldier, The.
You Put no Flowers on my
Papa's Grave.

No. 6.

First Appearance in Type.
Fitz-James and Rhoderick.
Frenchman and the Rats,
The.

Giles and Abraham.
Gradatim.

Miss Maloney on the Chinese
Question.

Mrs. Candle has taken Cold.
Mystic Weaver, The.
National Banner, The.
New Church Organ, The.

Green Mountain Justice, A. Night with a Ventriloquist, A.

Hardshell Sermon.

Heavier the Cross.

Helvellyn.

Hints on Health.

Home Picture, A.
How's my Boy.

Hymn to the Flowers.
I am Dying.

I Have Drank my Last Glass.

I Sue for Damages.

If We Had But Known.
Inconstant.

In School Days.
Jaffar.

Jenkins Goes to a Pic-Nic.
Jerusalem by Moonlight.
Jolly Old Pedagogue, The.
Last Man, The.

Last Mile-Stone, The.
Life from Death.
Light.

Noble Revenge, The,
Nothing in the Paper To-Day
Old Man in Stylish Church.
One Glass More.
Paddy's Excelsior.
Patriotism.

Perverse Hen, The.
Platonic.

Prayers of Children.
Quilting, The.

Response to "A Man's a Man
for A' That."

Rome and Carthage.

Shall we know Each Other
There.

Silver Wedding, The.
Sketch of Old Coaching Days.
Snow of Age, The.
Soliloquy of Richard III.
To Those About to Marry.
Uncle Jo.

Literary Pursuits and Active Vat have I got to Pay.

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Agony-Bells.

CONTENTS OF No. 7.

Have Charity.

Alonzo the Brave and the Heroes of Greece.
Fair Imogine.

Herve Riel.

Answer to "Five O'Clock in How Jamie Came Home.

the Morning."

Answer to "Leona."
As" Old Giles" Saw it.

At Last.

Battle of Life, The.
'Biah Cathcart's Proposal.
Borrioboola Gha.

Boy who went from Home,
The.

Brother Watkins.

By the Shore of the River.
Character of Henry Clay.
Cheer Up.

Cid and Bavieca, The.
Lamon to the Syracusans.
Dickens in Camp.
Double Bed, The.
Dumb-Waiter, The.
Dundreary at Brighton.
Education.

Eloquence and Logic.
Erin's Flag.

Example.

Idiot Boy, The.
Imitation.

I was with Grant.
Jimmy Butler and the Owl.
Joe Jones.-A Parody.
John Gilpin.

Johnny Bartholomew.
Kate Ketchem.

Kiss at the Door, A.
Labor is Worship.
Left Alone at Eighty.

Leona.

Life's Battle.-An Oration.
Life's Conflict.

Little Boy that Died, The.
Little Mary's Wish.
Lost Mr. Blake.
Mad Engineer, The.
Man may be Happy.
Mark Twain Edits an Agri-
cultural Paper.
Marmion and Douglas.
Mercy.

Factory Girl's Last Day, The. Midsummer-Day Scene, A.

Friar Philip.

Galley Slave, The.

Gladiator, The.

Graves of the Patriots, The.

Gray Swan, The.

Griper Greg.

Hamlet's Ghost.

Abram and Zimri.

Across the River.
All's Well.

Milton's Prayer of Patience.
Mona's Waters.

Mr. Stiver's Horse.
My Childhood Home.
My Creed.

Noble Revenge.
Not very Far.

CONTENTS OF No. 8.

"Are You a Mason ?"
Baggage Fiend, The.
Battle of Blenheim, The.
Beautiful Dreams.
Ben Fisher.

Bill Arp on the Rack.
Bridge of Truth, The.
Bull-Fight, The.

Burial of Sir John Moore.
Burial of the Dane, The.
Cassius against Cresar.
Clown's Story, The.
Coquette Punished, A.
David, King of Israel.
Death of Little Nell.
Death-Ride, The.
Der Baby.
Dignity of Labor, The.
Dirge, A.

Dishonest Politician, The.
Drummer's Bride, The.
Dying Hymn, A.
Dying Street Arab, The.
Eagle's Rock, The.
Endurance.

Exile to his Wife, The.
Faith and Works.
First Parting, The.
Forest Hymn, A.

Freedom and Patriotism.

Glove and the Lions, The.
Gray's Elegy.

Heritage, The.
Hebrew Tale, A.
If we Would.
Immortality.
It Might have Been.
Jephtha's Rash Vow.
John Jankins' Sermon.
Katie Lee and Willie Grey.
King and the Locusts, The.
Kit Carson's Ride.
Laborer, The.

Oratory and the Press.
Order for a Picture, An.
Our Whole Country.
Out in the Sobbing Rain.
Out of the Old House, Nancy.
Pat O'Rourke and the Frogs.
Picture, The.

Quaker and Robber, The.
Rabboni.

Recollections of my Christ-
mas Tree.

Let Every One Sweep before Rip Van Winkle.

his Own Door.
Lofty Faith.

Lost Heir, The.
Magical Isle, The.
Mahmoud.

Rolla's Address.
Sexton, The.

Shadow on the Blind, The.
Sign of Distress, The.
Simon Short's Son Samuel.
Singing for the Million.
Skipper Ireson's Ride.
Sneezing Man, The.
Snow-Storm, The.
Speech of Vindication,
Spiritual Temple, The.
Strong Drink.
That Line Fence.
Christ, Three Bells, The.
Thrilling Sketch.
Tired Mothers.

Man of Expedients, The.
Mark Twain tells an Anec-
dote of A. Ward.
Melting Moments.
Model Love-Letter, A.
Mr. Perkins Buys a Dog.
Mr. Perkins Moves a Stove.
My Mother's Bible.
Mystery of Life in

The.
Name, A.

Never Give Up.

No Mortgage on the Farm.
Nothing but Leaves.

Not Lost.

Old Canoe, The.

Old Forsaken School-House,
The.

To the Terrestrial Globe.
True Source of Reform, The.
Wanted--A Pastor.
Warren's Address.

"What Might have Been."
Wives of Brixham, The.
Ye Editor's Perplexities.

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After the Battle.

CONTENTS OF No. 9.

Anger and Enumeration.
Antony and Cleopatra.
Appeal of the Missagans.
Away from the Wine-Cup!
Bachelors, The.

Beneath the Surface.
Binley and " 46."
Boys, The.

Buck Fanshaw's Funeral.
Caudle's Wedding-Day.
Cause of Temperance, The.
Charity.

Christmas Eve.
Cleopatra's Barge.

Curfew Must Not Ring
Night.

Dead Light-House Keeper,

The.

Death of Moses, The.
Doorstep, The.

Drink Drink! Drink!

Elocution.

Ensign Bearer, The.

Eva's Death.

How Mr. Coville Counted the Office-Seeker's Platform, The
Shingles on his House. Once More.
How the Gentlemen do Be-

fore Marriage.

How they do After Marriage.
How to Cure a Cough.
I'll Take What Father Takes.
Indem berance.
In Memoriam.

Jester's Serinon, The.
Last Prayer of Mary, Queen
of Scots.
Land Poor.

Lawyers and the Cat, The.
Laugh and Grow Fat.
To-Lay of the Madman.
Lay of Real Life, A.
Likeness, The.
Little Martyr, The.
Locked Out.
Maclaine's Child.
Maestro's Confession, The.
Mark Twain's "Story of the
Bad Little Boy."
Mary, Queen of Scots.

"Fat Contributor" on Insur- Mili River Ride.

Blessed are the Dead.
Bootblack, The.

Blifkins, the Bacchanal.
Brutus and Cassius.
Bumpkin's Courtship, The.
By the Aima River.
Calling a Boy in the Morning.
Candespina's Standard.
Catching the Morning Train.
Cook of the Period, A
Curing a Cold.

Dagmar Cross, The.
Davy, the Teamster.

Deserted Mill, The.
Diver, The.

Diversities of Judgment,
Double Sacrifice, The.
Drunkard's Dream, The.
Father Phil's Collection.
"Father, take my Hand."
Goin' Home To- Day.
Good-Night, Papa.
Gougaune Barra.
Gracious Answer, The.
Granger's Wife, The.
Hebrew Mother, The.

Hepsey's Anibition.

Her Letter.

Humble Virtue Rewarded.

Judge's

Temperance

ture, A.

Kathleen Ban Adair.

Lides to Bary Jade.

Only a Boy.
Only a Curl.
Only Sixteen.

Old Farmer Gray gets Photr
graphed.

Old Wife's Kiss, The.
Orator Puff.
Othello's Apology.
Reform Will Go On, The.
Retort, The.

Righteous Not Forsaken.The
Schoolmaster's Sleep, The.
Schneider's Ride.

Shadow on the Wall, The.
Slander.

Soldier's Pardon, The.
Soul of Eloquence, The.
Suicidal Cat, The.
Temperance, 1776-1876.
Thanksgiving, A.

There's a Silver Lining to
Every Cloud.

Thoughts in a Church-yard.
Trials of a Twin.

True Source of Contentment
Uncle, The.

We Shall Know.
What is That to Thee?
Whistler, The.

Woman's Rights, by Miss Ta
bitha Primrose.

Yankee and the Dutchman
Dog, The.

Year that is to Come, The.
Yuba Dam.

No. 10.

Reverie in Church.

Rum-Fiend's Fortrait, The

Ruins of Babylon, The.

Lec

Saracen Brothers, The.

Life is what we Make it.
Lights and Shades.
Light-House, The.
Little Evangelist, The.
Little Gretchen.
Lochiel's Warning.
Mary's Diminutive Sheep.
Menagerie, The.
Mephistopheles a Dealer.
Miser, The.
Modern Cymon, The.
Morning Argus Obituary De-
partment.

Mr. Caudle and his Second
Wife.

My Friend's Secret.
New "Old Mother Hubbard."
Number Ninety-One.

Old House in the Meadow.

Old Man in the Wood, The.

Schooling a Husband.

Seeing Through.

Selling a Coat.

Signs and Omens.

Sisters, The.

Sister Pleads for a Brothert

Life, A.

Sayder's Nose.

Some Mother's Child.
Stray Child, A.

There's Tan in the Street.
Three Fishers, The.
Time for Prayers, The.
Triumphs of our Language
Trouble your Head with yor

own Affairs.
True and False Glory.
True Heroism.

Two Anchors, The.
Two Loves and a Life.
Unbolted Door, The.
Uncle Dan'l's Prayer.
Vulture of the Alps, The.

Old Ways and the New, The.Waiting by the Gate.

Out.

Passing Away.

Prisoner for Debt, The.

Progress.

Progress of Humanity, The.
Pulpit Oratory.

Reply to The Welcome."

Wax Work.

Welcome, The.
When Duty Begins.

When Mary was a Lassie
When the Tide Goes Out
Willy's Grave.
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Aspirations.
Bascomb's Baby.

CONTENTS OF No. 11.

Battle of Lexington, The.
Be Just and Fear Not.
Better than Gold.
Blifkins the Ruralist.

Boy, A.

Boy's Last Request, The.
Brotherhood.

Building the Chimney.
Charlie Machree.
Charming Woman, A.
Child of Earth, The.
Chinese Story, A.
Cho-che-Bang and Chi-Chil-

Bloo.

Closet Scene from Hamlet.
Cockney Wail, A.
Conductor Bradley.
Courtship Under Difficulties.
Culture the Result of Labor.
Death-Bed, A.

Death of Henry Clay.
Demon Ship, The.
Drunkard's Dream, The.
Execution of Montrose, The.
Falstaff's Boasting.
Fisherman's Summons, The.
Footprints of Decay.
Gentle Alice Brown.
Give me the Hand.

God's Acre.

God's Anvil.

Golden Street, The.

Half an Hour before Supper.
He Didn't Want a Coffin.
He Doeth his Aims to be Seen
of Men.

How the Dutchman Killed
the Woodchuck.

"If Things was only Sich!"
In Heaven I'll Rock Thee to
Sleep.

In the Bottom Drawer.
Ivy Green, The.
Jere Lloyd on " Phrenology.'
King's Temple, The.
Laughin' in Meetin'.
Learned Negro, The.
Little Steenie.

Lord Dundreary Proposing.
Lost and Found.
Love and Age.
Love in a Balloon.
Lucky Call, The.
Maiden's Prayer, The.
Man with a Cold in his Head,
The.

Mark Twain's Story of "The
Good Little Boy.

Mary, the Maid of the Inn.
Mind, the Glory of Man.
Modern Belle, The.
Monster Cannon, The.
Mother, Home, and Heaven.
Mountains of Life, The.
My First Political Speech.
Nations and Humanity.

Gone with a Handsomer Man. Nature Proclaims a Deity.
Guard's Story, The.

Address of Spottycus.
Annuity, The.

Object of Missions, The.

Old Clock on the Wall, The.
Only a Woman.
Passing By.

Pilgrims and the Peas, The.
Portrait, The.
Psalm of Hope, A.
Red Jacket, The.
Regulus.

Regulus to Carthaginians.
Relief of Lucknow, The.
Ride on the Black Valley Rail-
road.

Ring Down the Drop.
Rock Me to Sleep.
Romance in Verse, A.
Save the Other Man.
Scene from Douglas, A.
Shelter.

She Would be a Mason.
Sorrowful Tale of a Hired
Girl.

Sublimity of the Bible.
Temptations of St Anthony.
That Baby in Tuscaloo.
Thebes.

There Come the Boys.
Troubles of a Wife.
True Faith.

Truth.

"Twill not be Long.
Vacation Hymn, A.

Warning to the Intemperate.
Weary Soul, The.
Wife's Appeal. The,

Wife, Children, and Friends.
Yarn, A.

CONTENTS OF No. 12.

Battle of the Kegs, The.
Beggar's Petition, The.
Beliry of Ghent, The.
Beth Gelert.

Petter Land, The.

Black Horse and Rider, The.

Bondage of Drink, The.

Centennial Celebration, Our. Little Brown Hands.

Brook, The.

Browns, The.

Centennial Oration.

Chameleon, The.

Chinese Dinner, The.

Columbia.

Constant Reader, A.

Country's Greatest Evil, The.
Cut Behind.

Dawn of the Centennial, The.
Death of Dora.

De Pint wid Old Pete.
Dimes and Dollars.
Doketor's Drubbles, A.
Edinburgh after Flodden.

Eternal Justice.

Little Margery.

Our Sweet Unexpressed.
Pat's Correspondence.

Phantoms of St. Sepulchre,

The.

Angel Pleasure of Picnic-ing, The.
Poor Little Joe.

Popping Corn.

Resignation.

Rev. Oleus Bacon, D.D. Schlausheimer Don't Gonciliate.

Shelling Peas.

She Wanted an Epitaph.

Malibran and the Young Mu- Sister of Charity. The.

sician.

Man who Felt Sad, The.

March of Mind, The.

Smith of Ragenbach. The.
Sneezing.

Song of 1876, The.

Mark Twain and the Inter Statue in Clay, The.

viewer.

Measuring the Baby.
Might of Love, The.
Minot's Ledge.

More Cruel than War.
Morn.

Mother's Fool.
Mulligan's Gospel.

Fast Mail and the Stage, The. Murillo's Trance.

Fatal Glass, The.

Mystic Veil, The.

Name in the Sand, A.
Night.

Ode to Independence
An.

Old Professor, The.

Stigma, The.

Story of the Little Rid Hin..
Stranger in the Pew, A.

Sumner's Tribute to Penn.

Teacher's Dream, The.

Temperance Rhyme-ation.
Then and Now, 1776-1876.
Three Warnings, The.
Uncle Reuben's Eapti-m.
Uncle Sam's a Hundred.
Unfinished Still.

Vegetable Convention. A.

Hall, Ventriloquist on a Stage

Old Woman's Railway Sig

nal, The.

Coach, A.
Victim, The.

Veiled Picture, The.
Wedding Fee, The.

One in Blue and One in Gray, What Ailed" Ugly Sam."