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• What Mr. Robinson Thinks

  From “The Biglow Papers,” No. III.
  GUVENER B. 1 is a sensible man;
  He stays to his home an’ looks arter his folks; …

  James Russell Lowell

• Swell’s Soliloquy

  I Don’t appwove this hawid waw;
  Those dweadful bannahs hawt my eyes;
  And guns and dwums are such a baw,— …

  Anonymous

• The Compliment

  Arrayed in snow-white pants and vest,
  And other rainment fair to view,
  I stood before my sweetheart Sue— …

  Eugene Field

• The Nantucket Skipper

  Many a long, long year ago,
  Nantucket skippers had a plan
  Of finding out, though “lying low,” …

  James Thomas Fields

• The One-Hoss Shay

  Or, The Deacon’s Masterpiece
  A Logical Story
  HAVE you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, …

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Griggsby’s Station

  Pap’s got his patent right, and rich as all creation;
  But where ’s the peace and comfort that we all had before?
  Le’s go a-visitin’ back to Griggsby’s Station— …

  James Whitcomb Riley

• He ’d Had No Show

  JOE Beall ’ud set upon a keg
  Down to the groc’ry store, an’ throw
  One leg right over t’other leg …

  Sam Walter Foss

• The Mystified Quaker in New York

  Respected Wife: By these few lines my whereabouts thee ’ll learn:
  Moreover, I impart to thee my serious concern.
  The language of this people is a riddle unto me; …

  Anonymous

• To the “Sextant”

  O Sextant of the meetin house, wich sweeps
  And dusts, or is supposed to! and makes fires,
  And lites the gass, and sumtimes leaves a screw loose, …

  Arabella M. Willson

• Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle

  Pike County Ballads
  WALL, no! I can’t tell whar he lives,
  Because he don’t live, you see; …

  John Hay

• To the Pliocene Skull

  A Geological Address
  “A human skull has been found in California, in the pliocene formation. This skull is the remnant, not only of the earliest pioneer of this State, but the oldest known human being…. The skull was found in a shaft one hundred and fifty feet deep, two miles from Angel’s, in Cal…

  Bret Harte

• Banty Tim

  [Remarks of Sergeant Tilmon Joy to the White Man’s Committee of Spunky Point, Illinois]
  I RECKON I git your drift, gents—
  You ’low the boy sha’n’t stay; …

  John Hay

• Dow’s Flat

  1856
  DOW’S Flat. That ’s its name.
  And I reckon that you …

  Bret Harte

• Plain Language from Truthful James

  Popularly Known as “The Heathen Chinee”
  WHICH I wish to remark—
  And my language is plain— …

  Bret Harte

• Perils of Thinking

  A Centipede was happy quite,
  Until a frog in fun
  Said, “Pray, which leg comes after which?” …

  Anonymous

• Nebuchadnezzar

  You, Nebuchadnezzar, whoa, sah!
  Whar is you tryin’ to go, sah?
  I ’d hab you fur to know, sah, …

  Irwin Russell

• A Life’s Love

  I Loved him in my dawning years—
  Far years, divinely dim;
  My blithest smiles, my saddest tears, …

  Anonymous

• Darwin

  There was an ape in the days that were earlier;
  Centuries passed, and his hair grew curlier;
  Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist, …

  Mortimer Collins

• Ode for a Social Meeting

  With Slight Alterations by a Teetotaller
  COME! fill a fresh bumper,—for why should we go
  While the [nectar vs. logwood] still reddens our cups as they flow? …

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Hollow Hospitality

  From “Satires,” Book III. Sat. 3.
  THE COURTEOUS citizen bade me to his feast
  With hollow words, and overly 1 request: …

  Joseph Hall

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