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Adventure with a Grizzly Bear 101 Ally Somers 610 American Notabilities 834 Anecdotes of Curran 108 Anecdotes of Paganini 39 Application of Electro-Magnetism to Railway Transit 786 Autobiography of a Sensitive Spirit 479 Bear-Steak 484 Blind Lovers of Chamouny 68 Bookworms 628 Bored Wells in Mississippi 539 Breton Wedding 87 Brush with a Bison 218 Captain's Self-Devotion 689 Chapter on Giraffes 202 Coffee-Planting in Ceylon 82 Conversation in a Stage Coach 105 Cricket 718 Convict's Tale 209 Daughter of Blood 74 Deserted House 241 Eagle and Swan 691 Eclipse in July, 1851 239
Preliminary; Word-painting; Grandiloquence; Memories of Childhood; Good-nature, 282. Englishman's independence; Parodies; Done twice; Punctuation; Epitaph; Personification, 284. Small courtesies; Home California; Grumblers; Rachel Baker, 421. Take physic, doctor; Moralizing; Curiosity, 422. Sabbath morning; Pictures of Napoleon; Libraries; Booing; Childlike temper; Pretty spry, 423. The sea; Old Eben; Harvest time; Long Island ghosts, 571. Alleged lunatic; Musical elephant, 572. The Bible; New use of a note of hand; The Ship of Death; Taste in tombstones; Tennyson's Word-painting, 573. Western eloquence; John Bull of old; Interrupting conversation, 575. Ollapod on October; The Virtues too cheap, 704. Charms of the incomprehensible; Harriet Martineau on love; The fire annihilator, 705. Originality; Eccentricities of Swift; The Iron Duke in Rhyme; On reminiscences, 706. Taking an interest; Determination of the Will, 707. In France without French; Mrs. Ramsbottom; The Disbanded Volunteer, 851. Baron Vondullbrainz; Domestic Remedies; Dr. Johnson on Scotland, 852. Hopeful Pupils; Lord Timothy Dexter; Adjutant-birds, 853. Dinner-giving; Keep cool; Peter Funk; Titles of songs; John Bull as a beat-ee, 854.