CONTENTS OF No. 11. The Mountains of Life, The Boy's Last Request. The Portrait. In the Bottom Drawer. Rock Me to Sleep. A Scene from Douglas. of Men. Jere Lloyd on "Phrenology." Wife, Children, and Friends. In Heaven I'll Rock Thee to Blifkins the Ruralist. The Old Clock on the Wall. Death of Henry Clay. the Woodchuck. Sorrowful Tale of a hired girl CONTENTS OF Then and Now, 1776-1876. "God is Nowhere." Good Reading. Little Margery. The Chameleon. The Might of Love. Mark Twain and the Inter- Poor Little Joe. The Sister of Charity. The Leap of Curtius. One in Blue, and One in Gray. Pleasures of Pienic-ing. Heartbreak Hill. "Twill Not bo Long. Gone with a Handsomor Man' Lost and Found. Lord Dundreary Proposing. The Relief of Lucknow. The Child of Earth. Rogulus to Carthaginians. True Faith. Only a Weraan. Courtship Under Difficulties No. Sumner's Tribute to Penn, The Old Professor. Morn. The March of Mind. A Name in the Sand. Rev. Oleus Bacon, D. D. 12. | The Country's GreatestEvil. A Stranger in the Pew. A Ventriloquist on a Stage- The Smith of Ragenbach. Coach. The Wedding Fee. The Bondage of Drink. The Better Land. The Fast Mail and the Stage. More Cruel than War. Beth Gelert. Temperance Rhyme-ation. Gone Before. A Constant Reader, Unele Sam's a Hundred. Mother's Fool. The Old Woman's Railway A Vegetable Convention. Ode to Independence Hall. The Song of 1876. The Dawn of the Centennial THE SPEAKER'S GARLAND, (in three volumes,) combines the whole Centennial Hymn. True Nobility. How Persimmons took Cah Pyramids not all Egyptian. Confession of a Drunkard. Though Lost to Sight, to God Bless Our School. Hide and Seek. Mark Twain on the Weather Brother Anderson's Sermon Makin' an Editor Outen o' The Silent Harp. The Spanish Duel. Old Huldah. Resisting a Mother's Love. A Disappointed Candidate. Course of Love too Smooth. What the Temperance Canse Get the entire Series of "100 CHOICE SELECTIONS." Clear the Way. A Blessing on the Dance. The Dukite Snake. 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