The Sixty Best Humorous Recitations

S. C. Johnson

• Publisher: Macnutt Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473353749
• Print ISBN:
  9781446526330

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Preface to Revised Edition
• Contents
• The Hammer and the Nail
• The Two Sides of the Picture
• The Confession
• The Quaker’s Meeting
• The Hero
• Faithless Sally Brown
• It’s Only When the Baby Lives Next Door
• Faithless Nelly Gray
• Chacun à Son Goût
• The Farmer and the Counsel
• Blackmail
• ’Ouse Breaking
• The Scotsman’s Candle
• Much the Same
• A Parental Ode to My Infant Son
• Grandma’s Advice
• A Girl’s Essay on Boys
• Old Sir Archibald
• Not Exaggerated
• Domestic Asides; or Truth in Parentheses
• The Declaration
• The Sailor’s Consolation
• Cautionary Verses
• The Farmer Whispered
• Mistaken Applause
• The Pilgrims and the Peas
• The Tanner
• An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
• Multiplication
• Up at Lord’s
• A Way Out of It
• A Friend
• The Old Man and His Wife
• The Newcastle Apothecary
• Quite True
• Sally Simpkin’s Lament; or John Jones’s Kit-Cat-Astrophe
• Midnight Encounter with a Rocking Chair
• The Jilted Nymph
• Adam and Eve
• The Carlisle “Non-Stop”
• A Mere Mistake
• The Unfair Fare
• Early One Morning
• The Supper Superstition
• Alphabetical Rivers
• Old Sayings in Rhyme
• Surnames
• He Who Never Comes Too Late
• The Small White Ball
• The Ancient Mariner (A Potted Version)
• Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lecture
• Whiskers (A Comedy in Little)
• No Encumbrances
• An Irreducible Detective Story: Hanged by a Hair; or a Murder Mystery Minimised
• The House-Warming (A Ballad of Bachelor Days)
• The Last Lamp in the Alley (After Moore)
• The Razor-Seller
• The Three Sailors
• Who’s the Fool?
• A Frenchman’s Account of Adam’s Fall