One Hundred Choice Selections in Poetry and Prose

she made haste to rub the whole bundle of matches, for she wished to hold her grandmother fast. And the matches gave a light that was brighter than noonday. Her grandmother had never appeared so beautiful nor so large. She took the little girl in her arms, and both flew upwards, all radiant and joyful, far, far above mortal ken, where there was neither cold, nor hunger, nor care to be found; where there was no rain, no snow, or stormy wind, but calm, sunny days the whole year round.

But, in the cold dawn, the poor girl might be seen leaning against the wall, with red cheeks and smiling mouth; she had been frozen on the last night of the old year. The new year's sun shone upon the little dead girl. She sat still holding the matches, one bundle of which was burned. People said: "She tried to warm herself." Nobody dreamed of the fine things she had seen, nor in what splendor she had entered, along with her grandmother, upon the joys of the New Year.

TOBY TOSSPOT.-GEORGE COLMAN.

Alas! what pity 'tis that regularity,
Like Isaac Shove's, is such a rarity!
But there are swilling wights in London town,
Termed jolly dogs, choice spirits, alias swine,
Who pour, in midnight revel, bumpers down,
Making their throats a thoroughfare for wine.
These spendthrifts, who life's pleasures thus run on,
Dozing with headaches till the afternoon,
Lose half men's regular estate of sun,

By borrowing too largely of the moon.

One of this kidney-Toby Tosspot hight

Was coming from the "Bedford" late at night;
And being Bacchi plenus, full of wine,
Although he had a tolerable notion
Of aiming at progressive motion,
'Twasn't direct, 'twas serpentine.
He worked, with sinuosities, along,

Like Monsieur Corkscrew, worming through a cork,
Not straight, like Corkscrew's proxy, stiff Don Prong,―a fork.

At length, with near four bottles in his pate,

He saw the moon shining on Shove's brass plate,

When reading, "Please to ring the bell,"

And being civil beyond measure,

Ring it!" says Toby,--" very well;

I'll ring it with a deal of pleasure."
Toby, the kindest soul in all the town,
Gave it a jerk that almost jerked it down.

He waited full two minutes,-no one came;
He waited full two minutes more ;--and then
Says Toby, "If he's deaf, I'm not to blame;
I'll pull it for the gentleman again."

But the first peal woke Isaac in a fright,
Who, quick as lightning, popping up his head,
Sat on his head's antipodes, in bed,

Pale as a parsnip,-bolt upright.

At length he wisely to himself doth say,
Calming his fears,--

"Tush! 'tis some fool has rung and run away;"
When peal the second rattled in his ears.

Shove jumped into the middle of the floor;

And, trembling at each breath of air that stirred, He groped down stairs, and opened the street door, While Toby was performing peal the third.

Isaac eyed Toby, fearfully askant,

And saw he was a strapper, stout and tall; Then put this question, "Pray, sir, what d'ye want?" Says Toby, "I want nothing, sir, at all."

"Want nothing! Sir, you've pulled my bell, I vow, As if you'd jerk it off the wire."

Quoth Toby, gravely making him a bow,

I pulled it, sir, at your desire."

"At mine?" "Yes, yours; I hope I've done it well! High time for bed, sir!-I was hastening to it; But if you write up, 'Please to ring the bell,’ Common politeness makes me stop and do it."

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Oh, Why Should the Spirit off Address to the Soldiers.

Mortal be Proud?
The American Flag.
Infelicissime.

On the Death of A, Lincoln.
The Sleeping Sentinel.
Sir John Franklin,
Kane.

Discoveries of Galileo.
"Owed" to the Fire Engine.
Barbara Frietchie.
The Student.

The Two Roads.

On Board the Cumberland,
Sheridan's Ride.

Courtin' in the Country.
Extract from Senator Ba-
kor's Speech at Union
Square, 1861.
The Famine.

Scott and the Veteran.
The Ghost.

Opportunity for Work.
The Bachelor's Soliloquy.
Col. Halpine's Poem on the
Gettysburg Monument.
Crime its own Detector.
A. Ward's Trip to Richmond
Bingen on the Rhine.
Our Defenders.
Hezekiah Stubbin's Oration.
Sufferings of the Pilgrims,
The Great Bell Roland.
Cato's Soliloquy.

The Battle of Gettysburg.
The Soliloquy of Arnold.
Ode to my Little Son.
Unjust National Acquisition

The Raven.
No God,

My Lord Tomnoddy.
Birthday of Washington.
The Bridge of Sighs.
Wood of Chancellorsville.
The Smack in School.
Extract from Dickinson's
Speech at Union Square.
The Bells.
Wounded.

The Farmer's Blunder.
The Oath.

The Main Truck.
Driving Ilome the Cows.
The Confession.
Damon and Pythias.
Advice to a Fire Company.
Glorious New England.
The New Castle Apothecary.
New Year's Eve.

On the Shores of Tennessee.
Spartacus to the Gladiators.
The Modest Wit.
IIail to the Veterans.
IIamlet to the Players,
Ilamlet's Soliloquy.

All We Ask is to bo Let Alone
Capital Punishment,

Caudle's Umbrella Lecture. Maud Muller,

Thanatopsis.
Opposite Examples.
Drifting.

The Heart of the War,
The Closing Year.

Select Passages in Verse.
Lecture by Doctor Puff Stuff.
Kneel at no Human Shrine.
Lament of Irish Emigrant.
Absalom.

A Racy Stump Speech.
General Joseph Reed.
Liberty and Union.
The Seminole's Reply.
The Vagabonds.
Wolsey's Soliloquy.
Death of John Q. Adams.
The Field of Waterloo.
Josh Billings on "Courting."
Hiawatha's Wooing.
Excelsior.

Song of Sherman's Army.
Getting in the Wrong om.
Marco Bozzaris.

Soldier's Aid Societies.
The Ballad of Ishmael Day.
Yorkshire Angling.
Rienzi's Address.
The Black Regiment.
The Pauper's Death-bed.
A Bombastie Description.
Short Poetical Extracts.
The Letters.
Shamus O'Brien.
The Parting.

Contents of No. 2.

U. S. National Anthem.
Paul Revere's Ride.
Lincoln's Address at the
Gettysburg Cemetery.
Socrates Snooks,
Battle of Lookout Mountain.
Nobody's Child.
Monument to Washington.
Vat You Please.
Will the Now Year come
To-night, Mamma?
The Revolutionary Rising.
Tribute to our Honored Dead
Fourth of July Oration,
The Picket Guard.
Over the River.
Spartacus to the Romans.
Wonderful One-Hoss Shay.
All of them.

The Meeting Place.
Reply to "Beautiful Snow."
A Drunken Soliloquy.
Our Country's Call.
The Painter of Seville.
Give Me Three Grains of
Corn, Mother.
Mr. Pickwick in a Dilemma.
Bernardo del Carpio.
Bernardo and King Alphonso
Shall we Give Up the Union?
There Once was a Toper.
The Cumberland.
The Ride from Ghent to Aix.
A Glass of Cold Water.
Deacon Stokes.
The Dying Soldier.

The May Queen.
Tubal Cain.
Caudle's Lecture on Buttons
Mantle of St. John de Matha.
A Psalm of Life.
The Bell of the "Atlantio.”
The Hypochondriao.
The Nation's Dead.
The Song of the Shirt.
Pledge with Wine.
The Gouty Merchant.
The Ballad of New Orleans.
The Hour of Death,
Answer to "Hour of Death.”
A Yankee in Love.
Dedicatory Ode for the Get-
tysburg National Cemetery
The Rum Maniac.
Washington Sword, &c.
The Housekeeper's Soliloquy
The Brave at Home.
Parrhasius and the Captive.
Death-Bed of Arnold.
Love, Murder, Matrimony.
The Death of Slavery.
Rain on the Roof.
Stand by the Flag.
A Frenchman's Dinner.
Union and Liberty.
No Sects in Heaven.
How Man should be Judged.
Artemus Ward in Dixie.
After the Battle.
The Light Brigade.
The Curse of Regulus.
Here She Goes, &o.

Hate of the Bowl.
Bugle Song,

Gen. Grant to the Army, 1855
The Farmer and Counsellos.
Only One Pair of Stockugs
to Mend To-night.
Tho Closing Scene.
Death of Copernicus.
Parody-Old Oaken Bucket.
Little Jim.

Horatius at the Bridge.
Your Mission.
Billings on "Manifest Des-
tiny."

The Quaker Widow.
Found Dead.
Tho Pretext of Rebellion.
A Psalm of marriage.
Hetty McEwen.
Masonic Emblems.
The Brides of Enderby.
Rules for Preserving Health.
Somebody's Darling.
The Wife.

The Fire-Fiend.
Mark Twain's Opinion of
"Chambermaids."

Awake! Awako!-(1851.)
The Inquiry.

We Meet Upon the Level,
and Part Upon the Square
Dundreary on "Pwoverbs."
Look Aloft.

The Modern Cain.
A Soliloquy from IIamlet.
Independence Bell, 1770.

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E. Pluribus Unum.
The Burning Prairie.
Joan of Arc.
I'raying for Rain.
Ring the Bell Softly.
The Polish Boy.

Contents of No. 3.

ideas the Life of a People.
Romance of Nick Van Stann
Rum's Maniac.
My Beautiful Child.
From a Sermon on the Death
of Abraham Lincoln.
New House that Jack Built.
Guard thine Action.
The Angels of Buena Vista.
Lincoln's Second Inaugural.
Tim Tuff,

Dead in the Street.
Mother and Poet.
The Bolls of Shandon,
Sam Weller's Valentine.
The Loved and Lost.
The Last Journey.

The Comet.

Twenty Years Ags.

Ward at Shakspeare's Tomb Going Out and Coming In.,

The Irish woman's Letter.

Not on the Battle-Field.
Jack Horner.
Meagher's Defence.
The Fate of Virginia.
Through Death to Life.
Footsteps on the Other Side.
Caudle a Mason.
The Old Clock on the Stairs.
If we Knew.
The Ballot Box.
The Razor Seller.
Ginevra.

The Burial of Moses.
Grattan's Reply to Corry.
The Collegian and Porter.
The Changed Cross.
Brutus on Cæsar's Death.
Antony to the Romans.

Regulus to the Roman Senate Grizzly Grumbler's Advice.

Dow's Flat.

Little Bennie.

Which Shall it Be?

Lochinvar's Ride.

The Young Gray Head.
The Parting Hour.
Adams and Jefferson.

A Frenchman's Flea Powder

Billings on "The District In the Other World.

Schoolmaster."

Shibboleth.

Death of the Old Year,

Judicial Tribunals.

Betty and the Bear.

Very Dark.

The Fireman.
Hezekiah Bedott.

Brutus on Lucretia's Death,
The Beautiful Snow.

The Leper.

Pleading Extraordinary.
Under the Lamplight.
The Sailor's Funeral.
Foes United in Death.
The Jester Condemned.
Heaven.

Eugene Aram's Dreaia.
Shylock to Antonio,
Josh Billings on "Gongs." ·
Out in the Streets.
Oration against Catiline.
Catiline's Defianee

His Eye was Stern and Wild.
Searching for the Slain.
The Baron's Last Banquet.
Death of Little Jo.
Nongtongraw.

The Ruined Merchant, t
The Death- Bed.
Abou Ben Adhem.
A Husband's Cooking.
Ring Out, Wild Bolls.
Magdalena.

Last Hours of Webster.
Heathen Chineo.

Poor Voter on Election Day.
Execution of Joan of Arc,
Icarus.

D. Green's Flying Machine.

Contents of No. 4.

The Star-Spangled Banner. | God.
The Bright Side.

Reply of Pitt to Walpole.
The Well of St. Keyne.
Farm-Yard Song.

Hallowed Ground.

Death of Morris.

Which Could I Spare.
Mrs. Caudle wants Clothing.
Song of the Drunkard,
The Maniac.

The Indian Chief's Speech.
Early Rising.

The Knight's Toast.
Lady Clare.
Loss of the Aretio.
The Irish Picket.
At the Morgue.
Battle of Fontenoy.
"Irish Brigade" at Fontenoy
Widow Bedott's Poetry.
Caoch the Piper.
Old Times and New.
Invective against Flood.
Mormon Widower's Lament
Man's Mission,

The Bayonet Charge.
Drunkards not all Brutes.
Bachelor's Hall.
Nearor Home.
Pictures of Memory.
The Singer.

Twain's European Guides"
The Children.
Clarence's Dream.
The Death of Hamilton.
A Swell's Soliloquy.
Ministering Angels.
The Miser fitly Punished.
Cæsar Passing the Rubicon.

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