Humorous Readings and Recitations in prose and verse

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ACCOMPANIED ON THE FLUTE
F. Anstey

THE TROUBLES OF A TRIPLET
W. Beatty-Kingston

SLIGHTLY DEAF
Bracebridge Hemming

THE LADY FREEMASON
H. T. Craven

WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT!
F. B. Harrison

THE FATAL LEGS
Walter Browne

THE CALIPH'S JESTER
From the Arabic

A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF NOTHING
Wilkie Collins

GEMINI AND VIRGO
C. S. Calverley

KING BIBBS
James Albery

MOLLY MULDOON
Anonymous

THE HARMONIOUS LOBSTERS
Robert Reece

THE PROVINCIAL LANDLADY
H. Chance Newton

MY MATRIMONIAL PREDICAMENT
Leopold Wagner

ETIQUETTE
W. S. Gilbert

A LOST SHEPHERD
Frank Barrett

A MATHEMATIC MADNESS
F. P. Dempster

WAITING AT TOTTLEPOT
J. Ashby-Sterry

MARRIED TO A GIANTESS
Walter Parke

THE VISION OF THE ALDERMAN
Henry S. Leigh

THE DEMON SNUFFERS
Geo. Manville Fenn

THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER
Lewis Carroll

MY BROTHER HENRY
J. M. Barrie

A NIGHT WITH A STORK
W. E. Wilcox

THE FAITHFUL LOVERS
F. C. Burnand

THE WAIL OF A BANNER-BEARER
Arthur Matthison

THE DREAM OF THE BILIOUS BEADLE
Arthur Shirley

MY FRIEND TREACLE
Watkin-Elliott

THE VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD
Anonymous

ARTEMUS WARD'S VISIT TO THE TOWER OF LONDON
Chas. Farrar Browne

MR. CAUDLE HAS LENT AN ACQUAINTANCE THE FAMILY UMBRELLA
Douglas Jerrold

DOMESTIC ASIDES
Tom Hood

THE CHARITY DINNER
Litchfield Moseley

ACTING WITH A VENGEANCE
W. Sapte, Jun.

MY FORTNIGHT AT WRETCHEDVILLE
George Augustus Sala

THE SORROWS OF WERTHER
W. M. Thackeray

MORAL MUSIC
Anonymous

BILLY DUMPS, THE TAILOR
Charles Clark

ON PUNNING
Theodore Hook

SEASIDE LODGINGS
Percy Reeve