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ISSUED SEPTEMBER 10, 1879.

100 CHOICE SELECTIONS, No. 17.

This number is uniform with the "Series," and presents another rare collection of new and standard productions for public and private reading being especially adapted to the use of LYCEUMS, TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES, EXHIBITION ROOMS, CHURCH SOCIABLES, ANNIVERSARIES, GRANGES, SOCIAL ENTERTAINMENTS, WINTER GATHERINGS and FAMILY FIRESIDES.

CONTENTS OF

America.
King Canute.
The Baby is Dead.
The Bachelor Sale.
God's Beverage.
Niagara.

Somebody's Mother.
Story of Bishop Potts.
My Bread on the Waters.
Lizzie and I are One..
The Destroyer.
Peter Longpocket.
A Royal Princess.

O, Breathe not his Name.
Moth-Eaten.

Bosbyschell's Confession.
The Countersign.
Down with the Traffic.
The Fireside Saints.
The Sausage-Maker's Ghost.
Foreclosure of the Mortgage.
Laughter.

In the Street of By-and-By.
Aunt Jemima's Courtship.
The Charge by the Ford.
A Nocturnal Sketch.
The Men to make a State.
A Country Courtship.
Death's Choice.
Feed my Sheep.
The Parson's Sociable.
A Twilight Idyl.
My Daughter Jane.
Always at the Gate.

Zeph Higgins' Confession.

No. 17.

A Reformed Man's Lament.
An Ideal with a Roman Nose.
Evening Brings us Home.
The New Preacher.
Cows A Composition.
The Old Surgeon's Story.
Progress.

The Harvest of Rum.

The Hole in the Patch..
A Little Shoe.

The Life Brigade,

Do not Sing that Song again
The Ship of Faith.
[Sleep, Weary Child.
The Old Church Bell.
The Village Bell.
Paddy Blake's Echo.
What Whiskey did for Me.
The Night that Baby Died.
Recipe for a Modern Novel.
A Literary Nightmare.
The Flight for Life.
In the Old South Church.
How to Break the Chain.
Words and their Uses.
The Mines of Avondale,
Greenwood Cemetery.

A Little Girl's View of Life
in a IIotel.

A Butcher and the Children,
Up-Hill.

The Letter of Marque.
A Texas Story.
Advertisement Answered.
The Gambler's Wife.

The Leap of Roushan Beg.
The Canc-Bottomed Chair.
A Tale of the Big Snow.
The Wrecker's Oath.
The Musical Frogs.
The Gamin.

The Secrets of Masonry.
Music in Camp.

The Hunter's Last Ride.
Every Year.

Artemus Ward's Mormon
Lecture.

Maturnus to his Band.

The Hero of the Commrne.
Texas Centennial Oration.
St. Patrick's Martyrs.
The Rosary of my Years.
The Hole in the Floor.
Lord Dundreary on Mental
Photographs.

Lord Dundreary and the
French Widow.

The Drunkard's Death.
Ride of Jennie M'Neal.
Arnold the Traitor.
A Zoological Romance.
How the Old Horse Won the
Bet.

A Hundred Years from Now.
The Old Thirteen.
Jim Wolfe and the Cats.
The Fire-Bell's Story.
A Christmas Hymn.
The Temperance Pledge.
The Widow.

180 pp.; Price, Pamphlet edition, 30 cents; Cloth-bound, 75 cents.

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