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قراءة كتاب Poison A Farce
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shoulder).
Hunker. I aint libelled nobody.
Officer. Dry up! Come along with me. I want your phiz in the rogues’ gallery.
Hunker (putting hat on one side). I guess I can screw it up so as you won’t know it again. I say, Twitters, I’ve made a suit of clothes out of this, anyhow. (Exeunt.)
Twitters (to Clara). Ah, you sly puss! Charles was the medicine you needed! Here, Charles, she’s your’s and half my fortune with her. Thank heaven, I’m not a blear-eyed Borgia, chumming with a prison-bird.
Clara. I don’t understand you, papa.
Twitters. No reason you should, my dear. Everything is bright and happy, excepting that I shall lose my little girl and be left all alone.
Mother (embracing him). I will take her place, Theophilus. The past shall be forgotten. I will never desert the lonely husband of my departed Sarah.
Twitters (shaking her off. To himself). I shall have to send for Hunker.
Always Get the Best. 50 of the Choicest Selections in the
| No.1 | Reading Club and Handy Speaker. Edited by George M. Baker. Price, cloth, 50 cents; paper, 15 cents. |
CONTENTS.
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The Red Jacket |
George M. Baker. |
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Old Age |
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Mahmoud |
Leigh Hunt. |
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The Closet Scene from “Hamlet” |
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How he saved St. Michael’s |
Aldine. |
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Samson |
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The Story of the Bad Little Boy who didn’t come to Grief |
Mark Twain. |
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Mr. Caudle and his Second Wife |
Douglas Jerrold’s Fireside Saints. |
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Tauler |
Whittier. |
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The Doorstep |
E. C. Stedman. |
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Old Farmer Gray gets photographed |
John H. Yates. |
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Mr. O’Gallagher’s Three Roads to Learning |
Capt. Marryat. |
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The Jester’s Sermon |
Walter Thornbury. |
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“The Boofer Lady” |
Dickens’s “Mutual Friend.” |
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Defiance of Harold the Dauntless |
Scott. |
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Battle Hymn |
Körner. |
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The Story of the Faithful Soul |
Adelaide Procter. |
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“Curfew must not ring To-Night” |
Rosa Hartwick Thorpe. |
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The Showman’s Courtship |
Artemus Ward. |
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How Terry saved his Bacon |
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The Senator’s Pledge |
Charles Sumner. |
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Overthrow of Belshazzar |
Barry Cornwall. |
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The Hour of Prayer |
Mrs. Hemans. |
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The Squire’s Story |
John Phœnix. |
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The Happiest Couple |
Sheridan. |
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Godiva |
Tennyson. |
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Farmer Bent’s Sheep-Washing |
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The Deutsch Maud Muller |
Carl Pretzel. |
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Charles Sumner |
Carl Schurz. |
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The Bricklayers |
G. H. Barnes. |
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A Stranger in the Pew |
Harper’s Mag. |
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The Mistletoe-Bough |
Bayley. |
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The Puzzled Census-Taker |
J. G. Saxe. |
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The Voices at the Throne |
I. Westwood. |
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Hans Breitmann’s Party |
Charles G. Leland. |
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Rob Roy MacGregor |
Walter Scott. |
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Der Drummer |
Charles F. Adams. |
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The Yankee and the Dutchman’s Dog |
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