It was a balmeous day in May, when spring was It was in a pleasant deepô, sequestered from the rain I waited in the little sunny room I wrote some lines once on a time I wus mighty good-lookin' when I wus young 193 13 215 50 97 9 51 258 224 7 Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay Me darlint, it's axin' they are Mine cracious! Mine cracious! shust look here und see Miss Flora M'Flimsey, of Madison Square My aunt, my dear unmarried aunt!. 66 'My daughter," and his voice was stern My love has long brown curls My worthy friend, A. Gordon Knott Nope, I reckon 'tain't no problem why our Sammy went away. Now, I's got a notion in my head dat when you come to die "No wonder me darlin' is cross-eyed " Now the Widow McGee "O come and be my mate!" etc. Oh! darn it all!-afeared of her Oh, whar shill we go w'en de great day comes Oh, yes, we've be'n fixin' up some sence we sold that piece o' groun' Old Grimes is dead; that good old man Old Nick, who taught the village school . One evening while reclining One morning when spring was in her teens O reverend sir, I do declare O'Ryan was a man of might "O thou, whatever title please thine ear Some folks the Old World find so fair 71 Some men were born for great things 307 So that's Cleopathera's Needle, bedad 237 "Speak, O man, less recent ! Fragmentary fossil!" 250 The editor sat with his head in his hands. doth appear The maid, as by the papers "The proper way for a man to pray The Weverwend Awthur Murwey Gween They've got a brand-new organ, Sue This is old gold-stoled October. This is the bait. Thrash away, you'll hev to rattle Through the " Philadelphy" College he went in a To Lake Aghmoogenegamook. 'Twas a hard case, that which happened in Lynn 354 321 175 142 81 211 I 54 'Twas April when she came to town 333 Vas marriage a failure? Vell, now, IO What makes you come here fer, mister What will we do when the good days come? When Mary Ann Dollinger got the skule daown Which I wish to remark Whin you was out a lady called Who builds de railroads and canals. "Who stuffed that white owl?" No one spoke in 156 318 28 Ye Alps audacious, through the heavens that rise INDEX TO AUTHORS. Adams, Charles Follen, 1842— 4, 58, 116, 154, 186, 327, 329 Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812. 206 Brown, John Thomas, 1863— Bellaw, Americus Wellington, 1842— Brownell, Henry Howard, 1820-1872 Burr, Lehigh, 18— Butler, William Allen, 1825- Carleton, Will, 1845- Carryl, Charles Edward, 1841-— 307, 349, 354 Cook, Marc (" Vandyke Brown"), 1854-1882 Cozzens, Frederick Swartout, 1818-1869 Dole, Nathan Haskell, 1852- Easton, Frank Tourtellot, 18- Halpine, Charles Graham (" Miles O'Reilly "), 1829- Lanigan, George Thomas, 1845-1886 Macon, John Alfred, 1851- 103 34, 83 13, 53, 193, 215, 325 133, 142, 253, 258 7 353 Mitchell, William Howard, 18— "Mix Parmenas" (Andrew W. Kelly), 18– 81, 181, 284 Newell, Robert Henry ("Orpheus C. Kerr "), 1836— 211 O'Leary, Cormac, 18— O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1844-1890 237 221 |