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And the other four good district fathers gave quick the consent that was due,

And cocked one eye up to the ceiling, and said, “ Them's my

sentiments tew.'

"Another thing, I must here mention, comes into the question to-day,

Concernin' some things in the grammar you're teachin' our gals for to say.

My gals is as steady as clockwork, and never give cause for much fear,

But they come home from school t'other evenin' a-talkin' such stuff as this here:

'I love,' an'' Thou lovest,' an'' He loves,' an' 'Ye love,' an' 'You love,' an' They—'

An' they answered my questions, ‘It's grammar’—'twas all I could get 'em to say.

Now if, 'stead of doin' your duty, you're carryin' matters on so As to make the gals say that they love you, it's just all that I want to know;

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Now Jim, the young heaven-built mechanic, in the dusk of the evening before,

Had well-nigh unjointed the stove-pipe, to make it come down on the floor;

And the squire bringing smartly his foot down, as a clincher to what he had said,

A joint of the pipe fell upon him, and larruped him square on the head.

The soot flew in clouds all about him, and blotted with black all the place,

And the squire and the other four fathers were peppered with black in the face.

The school, ever sharp for amusement, laid down all their cumbersome books,

And, spite of the teacher's endeavors, laughed loud at their visitor's looks.

And the squire, as he stalked to the doorway, swore oaths of a violet hue;

And the four district fathers, who followed, seemed to say, "Them's my sentiments tew."

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Give Me Three Grains of
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Deacon Stokes.

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Tubal Cain.
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The Nation's Dead.
Tho Song of the Shirt.
Pledge with Wine.
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How Man should be Judged.

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The Burning Prairie.
Joan of Arc.
Praying for Rain.
Ring the Bell Softly.
The Polish Boy.

Contents of No. 3.

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Romance of Nick Van Štann
Rum's Maniac.
My Beautiful Child.
From a Sermon on the Death
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New House that Jack Built.
Guard thine Action.
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Lincoln's Second Inaugural.
Tim Tuff,

Dead in the Street.
Mother and l'oet.

The Bells of Shandon,

Sam Weller's Valentine.
The Loved and Lost.
The Last Journey.

Regulus to the Roman Senate
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Little Bennie.

Which Shall it Be?

Lochinvar's Ride.

The Drawbridge Keeper.
Grave of Charles Dickens.
Little Nell's Funeral.

Ward at Shakspeare's Tomb
The Irishwoman's Letter.
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Caudle a Mason.
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If we Knew.
The Ballot Box.
The Razor Seller.
Ginevra.

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The Collegian and Porter.
The Changed Cross.
Brutus on Cæsar's Death.
Antony to the Romans.
Grizzly Grumbler's Advice.
The Young Gray Head,
The Parting Hour.
Adams and Jefferson.

A Frenchman's Flea Powder

Billings on "The District In the Other World.

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Shibboleth.

Death of the Old Year.

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Betty and the Bear.

Very Dark.

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The Beautiful Snow.

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A Husband's Cooking.
Ring Out, Wild Bells,
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Last Hours of Webster.
Heathen Chinee.

Poor Voter on Election Day.
Execution of Joan of Arc.
Icarus.

D. Green's Flying Machine.

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Which Could I Spare.
Mrs. Caudle wants Clothing.
Song of the Drunkard,
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The Knight's Toast.
Lady Clare.

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Battle of Fontenoy.
"Irish Brigade" at Fontenoy
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Caoch the Piper.
Old Times and New.
Invective against Flood.
Mormon Widower's Lament
Man's Mission,
The Bayonet Charge.
Drunkards not all Brutes.
Bachelor's Hall.
Nearer Home.
Pictures of Memory.
The Singer.
Twain's European Guides"
The Children.
Clarence's Dream.
The Death of Hamilton.
A Swell's Soliloquy.
Ministering Angels.
The Miser fitly Punished.
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The Night before Execution.
The Death Penalty.
Truth in Parentheses.
Cœur de Lion at the Bier of
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The American Indian.
Betsy and I aro Out.
Betsy Destroys the Papers.
To a Skeleton.

A Revolutionary Sermon.
The Declaration.

John Burns of Gettysburg.
Belshazzar.

The Unbeliever.

The Astonished Tippler.
The Drummer Boy.
Softly Woo away her Breath.
A Vision of Future Bliss.
Blind Men and the Elephant
Launching of the Snip.
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The Worth of Eloquenos.
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.
Crape on the Door.
Mark Twain's "Jim Smiley"
Joe.

Harmosan.

Blacksmith of Ragenbach,
Teaching Public School.
Bill and Joe.
The Atheist.

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 Battle of Ivry.
The Duellist's Ionor.
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, &o.
Perversion of the Bible.
The Power of Habit
Gape-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
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The Little Church 'round the Sorrow for the Dead.

Corner.
The Poor Player at the Gate.
Mr. Caudle has lent Five
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The Purest Pearl.

All's for the Best.
Eloquence.

A Minister's Pay-Day.
Vat have I Got to Pay.
When.

Annabel Lee.

Deborah Lee.-A Parody.
Absonce.

Over the Hills from the Poor
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Contents of No. 6.

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 Pic-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,
Doaf 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
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 Chineso
Question.

Claude Melnotte's Apology.
Conscience and Judgment.
The Wants of Man.

A Night with a Ventriloquiss
How's My Boy.

I Sue for Damages.
Eulogy on Lafayette.
Hints on Health.

The Jolly Old Pedagogue.
Unclo Jo.

Dreams and Realities.
Dream of "Fat Contributor."
Platonic.

I Have Drank my Last Glass
David Copperfield and his
Child-Wife.

In School Days.

The Dying Alchemist.

Soliloquy of Richard III.

The Silver Wedding.

California Obituary.

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Where Man should Die.
The Charcoal Mar.

Jerusalem by Moonlight.
First Appearance in Type.
Helvellyn.

Deacon Hezekiah.

The National Banner.

The Frenchman and the Rats

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