Bound in Boards ~30 cts.~ Paper Covers ~50 cts.~
~Barton's Comic Recitations and Humorous Dialogues.~ Containing a variety of Comic Recitations in Prose and Poetry, Amusing Dialogues, Burlesque Scenes, Eccentric Orations, Humorous Interludes and Laughable Farces.
A Prologue to Open an Entertainment The Stage-Struck Hero Here She Goes--and There She Goes Pastor M'Knock's Address Old Sugar's Courtship The Bachelor's Reasons for Taking a Wife The Spanish Valet and the Maid--Dialogue for 1 male and 1 Female. The Jackdaw of Rheims Jonathan and the Englishman Artemus Ward's Trip Auctioneer and the Lawyer Mr. and Mrs. Skinner The Bachelor and the Bride Drunkard and his Wife A Western Lawyer's Plea against the Fact Reading a Tragedy Cast-off Garments How to Cure a Cough The Soldier's Return Countrymen and the Ass Come and Go How they Pop the Question The Clever Idiot The Knights How the Lawyer got a Patron Saint Josh Billings on Laughing Night after Christmas A Change of System--for 2 males and 1 female Citizen and the Thieves Bogg's Dogs The Smack in School The Tinker and the Miller's Daughter An Original Parody The Parsons and the Corkscrew The Old Gentleman who Married a Young Wife Stage-Struck Darkey--Interlude for males Goody Grim _versus_ Lapstone--Dialogue for 4 males The Woman of Mind Wanted, a Confederate--Farce for 4 males Lodgings for Single Gentlemen Nursery Reminiscences The Farmer and the Councellor The Pugilists How Pat Saved his Bacon The Irish Drummer Mike Hooter's Bear Story The Critic Mr. Caudle Wants a Latch Key Humbugging a Tourist The Widow's Victim--for 2 males and 1 female Josh Rillings on the Mule Tinker and the Glazier Wonderful Dream--Negro Dialogue for 2 males An Occasional Address--For a Lady's First Appearance An Occasional Prologue--For Opening a Performance Address on Closing a Performance A Prologue for a Performance by Boys An Epilogue for a School Performance
Paper Covers. Price ~30 cts.~ Bound in Boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~
~Barber's American Book of Ready-Made Speeches.~ Containing 159 original examples of Humorous and Serious Speeches, suitable for every possible occasion where a speech may be called for, together with appropriate replies to each. Including: