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The Worth of Eloquence.
Saved.
A Slight Misunderstanding.
The Dying Brigand.
Our Folks.
A Child's Dream of a Star
The Whiskers.
John Maynard.
Deeds versus Creeds.
A Railroad Car Scene.
Compensation.
Chicago.
The Rescue of Chicago.
Crapo on the Door.
Mark Twain's "Jim Smiley"
Blacksmith of Ragenbach,
Teaching Public School.
Bill and Joe.
The Atheist.
The Battle of Ivry.
The Duellist's Honor.
Peter's Ride to the Wedding.
The Phantom Isles.
Hotspur's Defence.
Value of Reputation.
The Lament of Jacob Gray.
It is Well we cannot See, &c.
Perversion of the Bible.
The Power of Habit,
Gapo-Seed.
The Blacksmith's Story.
The Song of the Dying.
Affectation in the Pulpit.
Cousin Sally Dilliard.
New Thanatopsis.
There is no Death,
The Indians.
The Nantucket Skipper.
What the Old Man Said.
Seven Ages of Man.
Give me back my Husband.
The Old Yankee Farmer.
Learning to Pray.
Now I Lay me Down to Sleep
Infamous Legislation.
The Knight and the Lady.
You Put no Flowers on My
Papa's Grave.
The Existence of a God.
A. Ward among the Shakers.
Death of an Inebriate.
The Vision of Immortality.
The Shepherd of the People.
An Irish Letter.
Dora.
The Little Church 'round the Sorrow for the Dead.
Corner.
The Poor Player at the Gate.
Mr. Caudle has lent Five
Pounds to a Friend.
The Purest Pearl.
All's for the Best.
Eloquence.
A Minister's Pay-Day.
Vat have I Got to Pay.
Whon.
Annabel Lee.
Deborah Lee.-A Parody.
Absence.
Colfax on "Temperance."
Knocked About,
Atthe Window.-An Extract
Thoughts of "Enoch Arden."
Modulation.
Mouse-Hunting.
The River.
Golden Shoes.
The Tomb of Washington,
The Puzzled Dutchman.
Prayer and Potatoes.
Catiline to his Army.
The Old School House.
Putting up Stoves.
Drafted.
The Blue and the Gray.
Public Virtue.
How Betsey and I Made Up.
One Night with Gin.
The Dying Boy.
Catiline Expelled.
A Comical Dun.
What Does it Matter.
Annie and Willie's Prayer.
The Moneyless Man.
Darkey's Counsel to the
Newly Married.
The Balance-Wheel.
On the Town.
Love Lightens Labor.
Is it Anybody's Business.
The Wounded Soldier.
Char-co-o-al.
Over the Hills from the Poor Ambition.
House.
Dermot's Parting.
Voices of the Dead,
The Doctor and his Apples.
I am Dying.
Answer to "I am Dying."
Nothing in the Paper To-Day
A Sketch of the Old Coaching
Days.
Heavier the Cross.
The Deacon's Story.
Literary Pursuits and Active
Business.
A. Ward on Woman's Rights.
Memory's Wild-Wood,
A Home Picture.
The Old Man in the Stylish
Church.
Jenkins Goes to a Pie-Nic.
Vision of the Monk Gabriel,
Youth and Age.
Rome and Carthage.
The Quilting.
Giles and Abraham.
Prayers of Children.
Patriotism.
A Catastrophe.
Gradatim.
Mischief Makers.
The Last Mile-Stone,
Deaf as a Post.
The Last Man.
The Little Grave.
Duty of an American Scholar
The New Church Organ.
Death of Gaudentis.
The Engineer's Story.
The Noble Revenge.
To Those About to Marry.
The Mystic Weaver.
Emblems.
The Faithful Lovers.
Hardshell Sermon.
Light.
Dirge.
The Snow of Age.
The Perverse Hen.
A Woman's Question.
Address to a Mummy.
Answer of the Mummy.
Mrs. Caudle has taken Cold.
Shall we Know Each Other
There.
Life from Death.
America.
Paddy's Excelsior.
Hymn to the Flowers.
One Glass More.
Jaffar.
Difficulty about that Dog.
A Response to "A Man's a
Man for A' That,"
If We Had But Known.
The Drunkard's Death.
A Green Mountain Justice.
Bill Mason's Bride.
Inconstant.
The Eleventh Hour.
Mark Twain on Juvenile
Pugilists.
Are the Children at Home?
Fitz-James and Rhoderick.
Examples for Ireland.
Miss Malony on the Chinese
Question.
Claude Melnotte's Apology.
Conscience and Judgment.
The Wants of Man.
A Night with a Ventriloquist
How's My Boy.
I Sue for Damages.
Eulogy on Lafayette.
Hints on Health.
The Jolly Old Pedagogue.
Uncle Jo.
Dreams and Realities.
Dream of "Fat Contributor."
Platonic.
I Have Drank my Last Glass
David Copperfield and his
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In School Days.
The Dying Alchemist.
Soliloquy of Richard III.
The Silver Wedding.
California Obituary.
Where Man should Die.
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Jerusalem by Moonlight.
First Appearance in Type.
Helvellyn.
Deacon Hezekiah.
The National Banner.
The Frenchman and the Rats
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By the Shore of the River.
Eloquence and Logic.
Yarn of the "Nancy Bell."
The Old Man in the Model
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Now.
Johnny Bartholomew.
Imitation.
The Weaver.
A Pastor Wanted.
One Niche the Highest.
Kate Ketchem.
Borrioboola Gha.
Through Trials
William Tell.
Struggle with a Stove-Pipe.
The Factory Girl's Last Day
Erin's Flag.
The Mad Engineer.
Answer to "Five O'Clock in
the Morning."
A Midsummer-Day Scene.
Leona.
Answer to "Leona."
Brother Watkins.
Not very Far.
Griper Greg.
'Biah Cathcart's Proposal.
Lost Mr. Blake.
Shall the Baby Stay?
Left Alone at Eighty,
The Gray Swan.
Jimmy Butler and the Owl.
Alonzo the Brave and the
Fair Imogine.
Never Give Up..
The Laborer.
The Dignity of Labor.
Think of Me Then.
Education.
Joe Jones-A Parody.
The Voices at the Throne.
Have Charity.
How Jamie Čame Home.
Thompkinsville University.
The Gladiator.
Little Mary's Wish.
Post Nummos Virtus.
A Triumph of Order,
Persevere.
At Last,
Hamlet's Ghost.
Who Would be a Boy Again?
Marmion and Douglas.
Shadows.
Character of Henry Clay
I was with Grant.
Labor is Worship.
My Childhood Home.
Mona's Waters.
Mr. Stiver's Horse.
Life's Conflict.
The Rainbow.
Political Corruption.
A Sunnit to the Big Ox.
Ierve Riel.
The Little Boy that Died
Per Pacem ad Lucem.
Mark Twain edits an Agri-
cultural Paper.
The Boy who went from
Contents of No.
Pat O'Rouke and the Frogs.
The Sign of Distress.
Mystery of Life in Christ."
Freedom and Patriotism.
The Quaker and Robber.
Rabboni.
The Shadow on the Blind.
Tired Mothers,
The Eagle's Rock,
The Glove and the Lions.
Mr. Perkius Helpe to Move a
Stove.
The Burial of the Dane."
Immortality.
John Jankins' Sermon.
Endurance.
Katie Lee and Willie Grey.
The Old Forsaken School-
House.
The King and the Loousts.
Abram and Zimri.
A Coquette Punished.
The Dishonest Politician.
To the Terrestrial Globe.
The Bridge of Truth.
Waxted-A Pastor.
Out of the Old House, Nancy.
Melting Moments.
The Clown's Story.
My Mother's Bible.
Recollections of My Christ-
mas Tree.
Ye Editor's Perplexities.
Cassius against Cæsar.
The Exile to his Wife.
Let Every One Sweep before
his Own Door.
A Name.
A Hebrew Tale.
Simon Short's Son Samuel.
Mahmoud.
The Wives of Brixham.
Rolla's Address.
The Baggage Fiend.
Gray's Elegy.
Beautiful Dreams.
The Old Canoe.
Bill Arp on the Rack,
The Magical Isle.
Faith and Works.
David, King of Israel.
Der Baby.
The Spiritual Temple.
The Sexton.
A Dirge.
A Model Love-Letter.
The Death-Ride.
"Are You a Mason?"
Oratory and the Press.
The Picture.
Ben Fisher.
The Three Bells.
A Forest Hymn.
If We Would.
Rip Van Winkle.
The Snow-Storm.
Union Linked with Liberty,
Tim Twinkleton's Twins.
Man may be Happy,
The Stab.
Song of Steam.
The Double Bed,
Heroes of Greece.
The Idiot Boy.
The Battle of Life:
An Unfortunate Likeness,
A Kiss at the Door.
My Creed.
"Rock of Ages."
Dundreary at Brighton.
Milton's Prayer of Patience,
The Cid and Bavieca.
Socks for John Randall.
John Gilpin.
The Graves of the Patriots.
Dickens in Camp.
The Galley Slave.
Speech by Obadiah Parting
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Old Chums.
Sowing and Harvesting.
Life's Battle.-An Oration.
Song of Saratoga.
Agony Bells.
As "Old Giles" saw it,
Noble Revenge.
Friar Philip.
The Two Villages.
Damon to the Syracusans.
Example.
The Dumb-Waiter.
It Might Have Been. "What Might Have Been?” The Lost Heir.
Across the River.
An Order for a Picture.
Mr. Perkins Buys a Dog.
No Mortgage on the Farm.
Our Whole Country.
Speech of Vindication.
The First Parting.
Jephthah's Rash Vow.
Warren's Address.
Thrilling Sketch.
Lofty Faith.
Out in the Sobbing Rain.
Not Lost.
The Heritage.
Mark Twain tells an Aneo
dote of A. Ward. The Dying Street Arab. Nothing but Leaves. The Man of Expedients. That Line Fence. The Battle of Blenheim. Burial of Sir John Moore. The True Source of Reform. Singing for the Million. Kit Carson's Ride. The Bull Fight. Death of Little Nell. Skipper Ireson's Ride. The Drummer's Bride. A Dying Hymn Strong Drink. The Sneezing Man.
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Elocution.
The Bachelors.
We Shall Know.
Guilty or Not Guilty.
Ode for Decoration Day.
Buck Fanshaw's Funeral.
Only Sixteen.
The Year that is to Come,
The Reform Will Go On.
How to Cure a Cough,
O'Connell's Heart.
I'll Take What Father Takes
How Mr. Coville Counted the
Shingles on his House.
Mr. Coville's Easy Chair,
The Likeness.
Mary, Queen of Scots.
Last Prayer of Mary, Queen
of Scots.
A Night of Terror.
Indemberance,
How Ile Saved St. Michael's
The Schoolmaster's Sleep.
"IIez" and the Landlord.
True Source of Contentment
There's a Silver Lining to
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Great Presence of Mind.
Trials of a Twin.
The Doorstep.
Nobody There.
Land Poor.
The Lawyers and the Cat.
What is that to Thee?
Hannah Binding Shoes.
Appeal of the Missagans.
Woman's Rights by Miss Ta-
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Only a Curl.
My Child.
Charity.
The Cause of Temperance.
Yuba Dam.
The Soldier's Pardon.
Away from the Wine-Cup !
Beneath the Surface.
The Office-Seeker's Platform
Laugh and Grow Fat.
The Yankee and the Dutch- In Memoriam.
man's Dog.
The Mother's Sacrifice.
The Ensign Bearer,
Eva's Death.
The Suicidal Cat.
Othello's Apology.
The Little Martyr.
The Jester's Sermon.
Caudle's Wedding-Day.
The Whistler.
The Greenwood Shrift.
The Righteous Not Forsaken
Schneider's Ride.
Thoughts in a Church-yard.
Lay of the Madman.
Maclaine's Child.
Mr. Blifkin's First Baby.
Slander.
The Dead Light-house Keeper
How the Gentlemen Do Before
Marriago.
How they Do After Marriage
The Boys,
After the Battle.
Anger and Enumeration.
The Shadow on the Wall.
Drink! Drink! Drink!
Battle of Bunker Hill.
The American Flag.
Lides to Bary Jade.
There's Tan in the Street.
Seeing Through.
Out.
Number Ninety-One.
The Modern Cymon.
Little Gretchen,
The Little Evangelist.
Mary's Diminutive Sheep.
Waiting by the Gate.
The Bootblack.
Willy's Grave,
Mr. Caudle and his Second
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The Unbolted Door.
The Diver,
Good-Night, Papa,
Reverie in Church.
The Ruins of Babylon.
Beginning Again.
Lights and Shades.
The Bumpkin's Courtship.
The Miser.
The Old House in the Meadow
True and False Glory,
The Old Man in the Wood.
Two Loves and a Life,
The Light-Houз0.
Blessed are the Dead.
Now Old Mother Hubbard."
The Hobrew Mother.
Diversities of Judgment.
Davy, the Teamster.
Selling a Coat.
Goin' Home To-Day.
The World for Sale.
When Duty Begins,
The Menagerie,
A Sister Pleads for a Brother's
Life.
Trouble your Head with your
own Affairs.
Triumphs of our Language.
The Morning Argus Obituary
Department.
The Vulture of the Alps.
The Two Anchors.
The Rum Fiend's Portrait.
A Cook of the Period.
The Sisters.
The Dagmar Cross,
Curing A Cold.
Kathleen Ban Adair
Benevolence.
Passing Away.
The Progress of Humanity.
Wax Work.
Brutus and Cassius.
"Father, take My Hand."
The Gracious Answer.
Catching the Morning Train. Hepsy's Ambition.
The Old Wife's Kiss.
A Lay of Real Life.
Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Green.
Cleopatra's Barge.
Antony and Cleopatra.
Locked Out.
Old Farmer Gray gets Photo-
graphed.
An Ode to Rum.
The First and Last Dinner.
Orator Puff.
My Lambs.
Christmas Eve.
Only a Boy.
The "Fat Contristor 4th
Insurance Agents.
Binley and “45.”
Mill River Rido.
The Hole in the Carpet.
The Retort.
A Thanksgiving.
The Maestro's Confession.
From India.
Harp of a Thousand Strings.
Once More.
The Death of Moses.
Temperance, 1776-1876.
Mark Twain's "Story of the
Bad Little Boy."
The Time for Prayer:
The Double Saerifice.
The Saracen Brothers.
Uncle Dan'l's Prayer.
When Mary was a Lassie,
The Drunkard's Dream.
A Judge's Temperance Lee
ture.
Blifkins, the Bacchanal.
Mephistopheles a Dealer.
The Granger's Wife.
Schooling a Husband.
Aunt Tabitha.
The Deserted Mill,
Some Mother's Child.
The Old Ways and the New. True Heroism.
Gougaune Barra.
The Mountains of Life.
"If Things was only Sich!"
Culture the Result of Labor.
A Chinese Story.
Give Me the Hand.
The King's Temple.
Mind, the Glory of Man.
Temptations of St. Anthony.
Footprints of Decay.
Little Steenie.
The Boy's Last Request.
Laughin' in Meetin'.
Aspirations.
The Portrait.
In the Bottom Drawer.
The Man with a Cold in his
Head.
Rock Me to Sleep.
A Scene from Douglas.
My First Political Speech.
The Battle of Lexington.
He docth his Alms to be Seen
of Men.
Nations and Humanity.
The Modern Belle.
Conductor Bradley.
The Guard's Story.
God's Anvil.
Jere Lloyd on "Phrenology."
Brotherhood.
Wife, Children, and Friends.
Mother, Home, and Heaven.
Half-an-Hour before Supper
There Come the Boys.
Troubles of a Wife.
Charlie Machree.
In Heaven I'll Rock Thee to Blifkins the Ruralist.
The Statue in Clay.
Mark Twain and the Inter-
viewer.
Poor Little Joe.
The Sister of Charity.
The Voiled Picture.
A Helpmate.
Hold the Light.
Measuring the Baby.
Minot's Ledge.
The Man who Felt Sad.
Resignation.
The Leap of Curtius.
Malibran and the Young Mu-
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Schlausheimer Don't Goncil-
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One in Blue, and One in Gray.
Murillo's Trance,
Father, Lead On.
Pleasures of Picnic-ing.
The Stigma.
Heartbreak Hill.
Sumner's Tribute to Penn,
Shelling Peas.
The Old Professor.
Kentucky Belle.
The King's Picture.
She Wanted an Epitaph.
Morn.
Night.
The March of Mind.
The Chinese Dinner.
Four lives.
A Name in the Sand.
The Teacher's Dream,
Address of Spottycus.
The Browns.
Judge not.
Cut Behind.
Rev. Oleus Bacon, D. D.
Edinburgh after Flodden.
A Hundred Years to Come.
A Stranger in the Pew.
Story of the Little Rid Hin.
Is there room in Angel Land?
A Ventriloquist on a Stage- The Smith of Ragenbach.
The Wedding Fee.
The Bondage of Drink.
The Black Horse and Rider.
De Pint wid Old Pete.
Little Brown Hands.
The Belfry of Ghent.
Mulligan's Gospel.
The Better Land.
A Doketer's Drubbles.
Dimes and Dollars.
Eternal Justice.
The Fast Mail and the Stage.
How we Hunted a Mouse.
The Brook.
More Cruel than War.
The Country's Greatest Evil.
Popping Corn.
Beth Gelert.
Temperance Rhyme-ation.
The Beggar's Petition.
Pat's Correspondence.
For Love.
Gone Before.
Death of Dora.
A Constant Reader.
Our Sweet Unexpressed.
The Mystic Veil.
The Three Warnings.
What Ailed "Ugly Sam."
The Fatal Glass,
Uncle Sam's a Hundred.
Independence Day.
The Battle of the Kegs.
The Victim.
Mother's Fool.
The Old Woman's Railway
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A Vegetable Convention.
Phantoms of St. Sepulchre.
Unfinished Still.
Our Centennial Celebration.
The Annuity.
Knocking.
Ode to Independence Hall.
Centennial Oration.
Sneezing.
Columbia.
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True Nobility.
How Persimmons took Cah
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The Ride of Collins Graves.
Religion and Doctrine.
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The Surgeon's Tale.
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Pyramids not all Egyptian.
Proverbeel Feelossify.
The Two Temples.
'Tis Five-and-Twenty Years
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Aunty Doleful's Visit.
Custer's Last Charge.
The Newsboy.
Confession of a Drunkard.
Spelling Down.
Faith and Reason.
The Dumb Child.
Execut'n of Madame Roland
Widder Green's Last Words
The Little Hero.
Our Own.
Passing Under the Rod.
Asking the Gov'ner.
What I Saw.
My Neighbor's Baby.
Liberty.
The Church Spider.
Murder of King Duncan.
A Woman's Question.
Reply to "A Woman's Ques-
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Mr. Rootle's Economy.
A Farewell.
The Bivouac of the Dead.
A Physician's Story.
The Old Deacon's Lament.
Though Lost to Sight, to Too Late.
Memory Dear.
Is it Nothing to You?
Art Thou Living Yet?
God Bless Our School.
To America in 1876.
The Little Hatchet Story.
Josiah and Family at the The Faces we Meet.
The Fatal Falsehood.
The Difficulty of Rhyming.
The Bartender's Story.
The Wine Cup.
The Minstrel's Curse.
Goin' Somewhere.
Germs of the Beautiful.
The Ballad of Babie Bell.
Grandmother's Spectacles.
The Country Dance.
The Pride of Battery B.
I'm with You Once Again.
The True Temple.
A Ker Chew Duet.
Wet and Dry.
There's Business for All.
Temperance Pearls..
The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
The Flood of Years.
Fourth of July, 1876.
Hide and Seek.
Mark Twain on the Weather
Bernardo's Revenge.
A Trapper's Story.
Brother Anderson's Sermon
The Village Sewing Society.
Papa Can't Find Me.
God Save Our President.
What is a Minority?
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The Silent Harp.
Cuddle Doon.
Lodge Night.
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The Flower of Liberty.
Father Roach.
An Angel in a Saloon.
Mr. Schmidt's Mistake.
Better Things.
The Old Sweet Song.
Metaphorical Papers.
Daddy's Boy.
Now.
Love on the Half-Shell.
The Glass Railroad.
Popping the Question.
The Hillside Legion.
Archie Dean.
Who is to Blame?
Canvassing Disadvantages.
Annie's Ticket.
The Lost Church.
The Blind Preacher.
The Broken Pitcher.
The Lost Steamship.
Kyarlina Jim.
Mat and IIal and I.
A Courteous Mother.
Vas Bender Henshpecked?
At Set of Sun.
Why Biddy and Pat Married.
A Sign-Board.
Sewing on a Button.
Little Pat and the Parson.
The Penny ye Meant to Gi'e.
Scene at Niagara Falls.
The Female Convention.
The First Party.
The Last Hymn.
Pimpkin versus Bodkin.
The Leak in the Dike.
The Singer's Alms.
The Water-Mill,
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp.
Ike after the Opera.
Regret.
The Death of the Old Squire.
The Rainy Day.
A Railway Station in the
North of England.
Our Visitor, and What he A Mother's Diary.
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The Lost Babies.
The Philosopher's Scales.
The Unpaid Seamstress.
The Puzzled Census-Taker.
Papa's Letter.
My Mother at the Gate,
The Bell of Atri.
Too Late for the Train.
The Death of Ilofer.
The Spanish Duel.
Resisting a Mother's Love.
Trouble in the Choir,
The Maiden Martyr.
The Rift of the Rock.
The Vaudois Teacher.
A Disappointed Candidate:
The First Snow-Fall.
The Unnoticed Bound.
Losses.
Course of Love too Smooth.
Sennacherib.
Forty to Twenty.
The Little Stow-Away.
Hans and Fritz.
What the Temperance Cause
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To the Rescue.
A Hundred Years from Now.
Two Bootblacks.
Burning of the Lexington.
The Dying Christian.
Spike that Gun.
John and Tibbie's Dispute.
Whistling in Heaven.
Airy Nothings.
The Newsboy's Debt.
Taking up Carpets.
Battle of Hohenlinden.
Uncle Remus' Revival Hymn
The Puritans.
The Eagle.
Romance of a Carpet.
Iphigenia and Agamemnon.
Humility.
Budge and Toddie.
Josiah Allen's Wife at A. T. The Grateful Preacher.
Stewart's Store.
Man's Mortality.
Respect the Burden.
The Missing Ship.
An Honest Rum-Seller's Ad-
vertisement.
Sim's Little Girl.
Tho School-Master's Guests,
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