Pieces People Ask For
Serious, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic, and Dramatic
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Pieces People Ask For
Part I
THE LIGHT FROM OVER THE RANGE.
THE DRIVER OF NINETY-THREE.
METAMORA TO THE COUNCIL.
HOW THE RANSOM WAS PAID.
RE-ENLISTED.
SHE STOOD ON THE STAIR.
THE HOUSE IN THE MEADOW.
A LITTLE PEACH.
MR. PICKWICK’S ROMANTIC ADVENTURE WITH A MIDDLE-AGED LADY IN YELLOW CURL-PAPERS.
THE DEATH OF D’ASSAS.
THE MAN WITH THE MUSKET.
A TOUGH CUSTOMER.
THE LABOR QUESTION.
LOVE AND PHILOSOPHY.
THE FLAG.
BECAUSE.
TOGETHER ON THE STAIRS.
THE CHRISTENING.
THE VILLAGE CHOIR.
FILLING HIS PLACE.
THE HERITAGE.
CASABIANCA (Colored).
MARY’S LAMB ON A NEW PRINCIPLE.
CUT, CUT BEHIND.
SCENE FROM ION.
MISSING.
DECORATION DAY.
WHEN GREEK MET GREEK.
THE RAJAH’S CLOCK.
THE DEACON’S RIDE.
THE SILVER BELL.
COUNTING EGGS.
THE FALL.
A CENTRE-BOARD YACHT-RACE.
THE MISSISSIPPI MIRACLE.
WENDELL PHILLIPS.
MALARIA.
PUZZLED.
THE BOOK CANVASSER.
THE ENGINEER’S STORY.
THE COMING WAVE.
THE STORY OF SIR ARNULPH.
A LOST CHILD.
WHEN McGUE PUTS THE BABY TO SLEEP.
JEM’S LAST RIDE.
OVER THE CROSSIN’.
SOMEHOW OR OTHER.
TATERS.
“AN UNKNOWN MAN, RESPECTABLY DRESSED.”
“BAY BILLY.”
HIRING HELP.
Part II
THE DRUMMER’S BETROTHED.
JOHN LELAND’S EXAMINATION.
THE SEPTEMBER GALE.
AT THE RISING OF THE MOON.
THE SADDEST SIGHT.
NEBULOUS PHILOSOPHY.
AT ARLINGTON.
A LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER.
THE SONG OF THE DRUM.
THE BRAVEST BOY IN TOWN.
BRER RABBIT AND THE BUTTER.
THE LOVES OF A LIFE.
THE PRISONER.
THE OLD CANTEEN.
AUNT SOPHRONIA TABOR AT THE OPERA.
NEVER TOO LATE.
A FIGHT WITH A TROUT.
AN ORDER FOR A PICTURE.
FORCIBLE ENTRY.
WENDELL PHILLIPS.
AUNT PARSONS’S STORY.
THE SOLDIER’S DREAM.
OVER THE LEFT.
THE SEMINOLE’S REPLY.
THE DUTCHMAN’S SERENADE.
SCENE FROM “INGOMAR”
CICELY AND THE BEARS.
A HOWL IN ROME.
JAMIE DOUGLAS.
STORY OF A BEDSTEAD.
“MAGDALENA.”
RAKING THE MEADOW-LOT.
AFTER “TAPS.”
INDIAN NAMES.
HE NEVER TOLD A LIE.
A LESSON TO LOVERS.
GRANT’S STRATEGY.
A “LOVE” GAME.
AN OLD MAN’S PRAYER.
THE LEAK IN THE DIKE.
THE “COURSE OF LOVE” TOO “SMOOTH.”
DYIN’ VORDS OF ISAAC.
NO!
THE MENAGERIE.
BIDDY’S PHILOSOPHY.
ON THE SHORES OF TENNESSEE.
PADDY’S DREAM.
LESSONS IN COOKERY.
PAT’S REASON.
AN ORIGINAL IDEA.
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