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Catalogue of “Standard Recitations”, Numbers 19–34

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STANDARD RECITATIONS.           CONTENTS OF No. 19.

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A Day.   By John G. Whittier

7

A Keeper’s Story.   By Ethel Lynn

21

An Empty Nest.   By Mary A. Barr

30

Advice to Boys

34

A Tramp’s Philosophy

37

Cæsar Passing the Rubicon.   By J. Sheridan Knowles

5

Confession of a Drunkard

6

Courage, Boy, Courage!

17

Character of Napoleon.   By Lamartine

38

Do Not Rust Out

24

England.   By Charles Mackay

19

Even This Shall Pass Away

32

En Voyage

38

Education.   By Schuyler Colfax

47

Fancy or Fact.   By James Russell Lowell

6

Great Lives Imperishable.   Edward Everett

19

How Riches are to be Measured

18

If We Knew

10

In Scotia Dear

35

Liberty.   By Frank E. Brush

20

Little Jim.   George R. Sims

25

Live for Good.   Rev. J. J. Case

31

Logan at Atlanta

36

Malibran and the Young Musician

12

My Portion

39

Napoleon the Little. Hugo

25

Night Before the Execution.   Mary E. Bryan

45

Our Ships

8

Opposite Examples.   Horace Mann

23

On Planting the Pear-tree.   By Rev. Edward Hopper, D.D.

42

Resolution

34

Success.   By B. F. Taylor

7

Spike that Gun

10

Saved.   By Jennie Joy

44

The Cane-Bottomed Chair.   W. M. Thackeray

8

The Cavalry Charge.   By E. C. Stedman

5

The Missing Ship.   By John B. Gough

9

The Burial of Chatham.   Macaulay

15

The Hindu King’s Reply to the Missionary.   Alfred C. Lyall

15

The Country’s Greatest Evil

16

The Pythian Flag up North

18

The Windy Night.   By Thomas B. Reed

24

To Her.   By Victor Hugo

25

The Phantom Wreck.   Nathan D. Urner

26

The Shepherd of the People.   Rev. P. Brooks

27

True Fame.   By Jay

28

The Open Door

29

The American Indian.   By Charles Sprague

29

The Trapper’s Last Trail.   Madge Morris

31

The Two Lives

32

The Sabbath

32

The World from the Sidewalk

33

The Duellist’s Honor.   By Bishop England

36

Trust in God, and do the Right.   N. McLeod

40

The Miner’s Luck.   J. W. Donovan

40

The Old School-house

41

The True Source of Reform.   E. H. Chapin

42

The Cry of the Dreamer.   John B. O’Reilly

43

The Lover’s Leap

46

The Bartholdi Statue.   By John G. Whittier

48

Vanitas. Charles M. Harger

27

Whiskey in its Place

11

Who are the Free.   By John C. Prince

21

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The Idyl of Battle Hollow.   Bret Harte

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How Tommy Went to Sea.   Colonel Tom Ochiltree

4

The Martyrs of Sandom’r.   M. Capel

6

Pike’s Peak.   Eugene Field

7

Alone.   Robert J. Burdette

8

Ingratitude Towards the Deity.   Appleton

8

Legend of the Crossing Sweeper

9

Sergeant Jasper at Fort Moultrie.   Louise Imogen Guiney

10

The Reveille

11

The Stoning of the Magdalen.   F. E. Pratt

11

State’s Evidence.   Margaret Cavendish

13

Mother’s Slipper

13

The Cradle Rocked.   H. S. Keller

14

The Old Class Room

15

In the Dakota Blizzard.   John Paul Bocock

16

Langsyne.   D. M. Moir

17

Mrs. Grundy

18

The Baby and the Soldier

19

“Clear the Way.”   Camilla Crosland

20

Wolfe Tone aboard the Hoche.   David G. Adee

21

My Old Vag.   M. Quad

21

Nobody Knows but Father.   H. C. Dodge

23

The Brave at Home.   T. Buchanan Read

23

Drunk in the Street

24

Posthumous Influence of the Wise and Good.   Norton

24

“Me and Bob and Jim.”   Ada Stewart Shelton

25

The Angelus

26

A Regular Bad ’Un.   Frederick Langbridge

26

The Thank-You Prayer

27

The True Pride of Ancestry.   Webster

28

Endurance

29

The Old Man and Jim.   James Whitcomb Riley

30

Why Are We Here.   C. G. Dann

31

Rural Occupations Favorable to the Sentiments of Devotion.   Buckminster

31

The Moonshiner’s Daughter.   M. B.

32

The Baby’s Prayer.   Mrs. E. E. Williamson

34

How He Got Rich

34

The Midnight Tryst.   Mary E. Bryan

35

The Four-Leaved Clover. A Decoration Day Reminiscence

37

What is Religion?   Bishop Heber

38

All Light There.   Mrs. M. L. Rayne

38

On the Field of Gettysburg.   Ena Walton

39

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate!

39

Influence of Christianity in Elevating the Female Character.   J. G. Carter

40

Would We Return?   Robert Burns Wilson

41

The Rose.   Mrs. Sigourney

42

Death

43

My Henry.   James W. Riley

43

The Lock of Hair.   Thomas Dunn English

44

Vita Nova

44

Description of a Death Scene.   Miss Francis

45

St. Brigid

47

“To Many of We.”

47

Decoration Day.   Minnie Irving

48

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Half-Way Doin’s.   Irwin Russell

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The Lady or the Tiger.   Mayor Joseph Kirkland in The Century

5

Confidential

6

St. Jonathan

6

Shinbones Becomes an Umpire.   W. J. Henderson

7

Uncle Ike’s Roosters.   Aaron W. Fredericks

8

How “Old Mose” Counted Eggs

9

Trouble in the Choir.   A. T. Worden

10

Who Makes the Soil

12

That Gentleman from Boston Town.   Joaquin Miller

13

A Change of Views.   W. Carey

14

The Story of Elizur.   F. A. S.

15

Robin Hood and the Abbot.   John Brook

16

Two Boot Blacks

17

A Reminiscence

18

Uncle Cuff “Rises Fur Ter ’Splain.”   William Longfellow Haynie

18

The Canine Question.   Alex. Sweet

19

The Setting Sachem

20

Asking the Gov’nor

21

The April Face.   Thomas Nelson Page

22

Guilty, Of Course.   G. Waldo

23

The Mosquito

24

Ode to the Full Moon.   Allen Kelly

24

The Ballad of Hiram Hover

25

A Negro’s Account of the Prodigal Son

26

Don’t Shpoil Dot Leedle Fun.   Emile Pickhardt

27

Mme. Eef

27

The Lightning-Rod Dispenser.   Will Carleton

28

Why Women Marry

30

A Pathetic Old Man

31

The Druggist’s Vengeance

32

The Emancipation of Man

33

The Wickedest Man in Memphis.   Alex. J. Brown

34

The Knights of the Road

35

Heinz Von Stein.   Charles G. Leland

35

Chairley Burke’s in Town.   James Whitcomb Riley

36

The Wife’s Strategy

36

Precepts at Parting.   Irwin Russell

37

Advice to a Young Man.   R. J. Burdette

38

The Chap that’s Been over to Lunnon

38

Noodleberry as a Neighbor.   W. H. Ellis

39

How We Tried to Whip The Teacher.   Eugene J. Hall

40

Der Sphider und der Fly.   Charles Follen Adams

41

Katrina’s Visit to New York.   Alex. T. Brown

42

The Turkish Bath.   By A Young Woman

43

Our Boarding-House Thanksgiving

44

Managing a Mule.   Irwin Russell

45

Der Oak und der Vine.   Charles Follen Adams

45

The Skeleton’s Confession.   E. S. V. Z.

46

How She Won Him

47

The Champion.   Edward P. Jackson

48

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Shamus O’Brien, The Bold Boy of Glingall.   Samuel Lover

3

The Soldier’s Reward.   J. W. Donovan

7

The Kitten of the Regiment

9

Perils of a Teacher. J. W. Donovan

10

A Climb at Rouen.   M. Betham Edwards

11

Catching the Colt

12

Something for Strikers

13

Harmony

13

By the Wayside.   E. Doherty

14

The Unwelcomed Baby

15

Running Before It.   William Constable

16

“Warned.”   Crape Myrtle

17

The Old Wife’s Kiss

17

The Old Office-Desk.   Henry J. Shellman

19

Chickens Come Home to Roost.   Ernest M‘Gaffey

19

The Blacksmith of Ragenbach

20

The Old Mill.   H. W. Field

21

One at a Time

22

The Hot Axle.   T. De Witt Talmage

22

Ellsworth’s Avengers.   Tripp

23

The Origin of Whiskey.   H. Burgess

24

The Two Words.   J. E. Dinkenga

25

Listeners.   M. K. D.

25

The Delinquent Subscriber.   Margaret Andrews Oldham

26

“Peace, Be Still.”   Violet

27

A Short Debate on Rum. “Th’ Poet o’ Ante-Bar.”

28

The Participants in the Boston Massacre.   John Hancock

28

Dandie.   M. F. Bradley

29

The Nameless Guest.   James Clarence Harvey

30

Slug Number Eleven

30

A Famous fight.   David Graham Adee

32

More Cruel Than War

33

The Fall of the Alamo.  Mrs. Barr

34

A New Gospel.   Carlotta Perry

35

Making the Round.   Mrs. M. L. Rayne

36

The Beautiful

37

Onatoga’s Sacrifice.   John Dimitry

38

Joe Sieg.   Alexander Anderson

39

Education.   C. Phillips

41

Ingratitude; Or, Old Sport and His Master.   Fred Williams

41

Old Uncle Jake

43

On the Rappahannock

44

The Better Land

45

Charity

45

St. Michael, the Weigher

46

The Orphan’s New Year.   O. H.

46

The Inch Cape Bell

47

The Old Minstrel

47

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If I Should Die To-night

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The American Union.   Daniel Webster

4

Abon Ben Adhem.   Leigh Hunt

4

A Child’s Cry

4

The Shamrock.   Anna B. Reardon

5

The Face Against the Pane.   T. B. Aldrich

6

Do Your Part.   J. W. Donovan

7

The Reign of Terror.   Thomas Carlyle

8

Life is so Long

8

Storming the Temple of Mexico.   William H. Prescott

9

Giant and Dwarf

9

The Religious Card Player

10

Conscience at Death

11

The Sicilian Vespers

12

The Curse of Regulus

12

Death Makes All Men Brothers.   Louise S. Upham

13

A Vision Rendered Into Poetry

15

At the Shaft’s Mouth.   R. E. White

16

In the Tunnel

17

The Peaceful Life.   Marianne Farningham

19

The Story of a Stowaway!   Clement Scott

20

Loss of The Arctic.   H. W. Beecher

21

The Emigrants.   Charles McKay

22

The Tramp.   J. J. R.

23

The Nail Maker

23

The Last of the Druids.   James Jeffrey Roche

24

Personalities and Ill Reports.   Dr. John Hall

24

The Sailor’s Song.   B. W. Proctor

25

Nail the Colors to the Mast.   Alfred H. Miles

25

The Unknown Hero

27

The Life-Boat

28

Milton’s Last Poem

28

How to Enliven Your Days—Work With a Will

28

The Soldier’s Pardon.   James Smith

29

True Bravery—A Thrilling Sketch

30

The Last Broadside.   Elizabeth T. P. Beach

31

The Faithful Friend

32

His Last Run

33

The Ship on Fire.   C. McKay

33

The Care of God

34

My Ship at Sea.   Thomas Dunn English

35

The Sailor’s Mother.   W. Wordsworth

35

Independence Bell

36

The Unknown Future.   Mary Kyle Dallas

37

Creating Criminals.   Charles Dudley Warner

38

Martin’s Puzzle.   George Meredith

38

The Ladder of St. Augustine.   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

40

The Step-mother.   Nathan D. Urner

41

Success.   C. M. Harger

42

The Good Woman.   I. B. Mean

42

All’s for the Best.  M. F. Tupper

43

The Right Road.   Ella Wheeler Wilcox

43

None Will Miss Thee

44

Little Orphant Annie.   James Whitcomb Riley

44

Difference Between Taste and Genius.   By Blair

45

Strength for To-Day

46

Washington.   Eliza Cook

46

Found Drowned

47

The Rosary

48

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Concepcion De Arguello.   Bret Harte

3

Eulogium on South Carolina.   Robert Y. Hayne

5

The Brewing of Soma.   John G. Whittier

6

The Wee, Wee Bairnie

7

Destiny.   T. B. Aldrich

8

Without Me

8

South Carolina and Massachusetts.   Daniel Webster

9

Burglar Bill

10

What My Lover Said.   Homer Greene

11

The Curse to Labor.   T. V. Powderly

12

The New Hail Columbia.   Oliver Wendell Holmes

13

Reuben James.   James Jeffrey Roche

13

Reply to Mr. Webster.   Robert Y. Hayne

14

Vas Marriage a Failure? Charles Follen Adams

15

The Soul’s Farewell to the Body.   Ella Wheeler Wilcox

16

A Woman’s Heart

16

The Minstrel’s Curse.   Ludwig Uhland

17

Visions of Joan of Arc and Bishop of Beauvais. De Quincey

18

The Old Cornet Player.   J. P. Bocock

20

Speech of Icilius to the Romans.   Alfieri

21

The Watch of Boon Island.   Mrs. Celia Thaxter

21

Rejoinder to Mr. Hayne.   Daniel Webster

23

To Ireland.   J. B. Killen

24

Christ Not a Christian.   A. D.

25

The Forging of the Anchor.   S. Ferguson

26

Speech of Shrewsbury before Queen Elizabeth.   Schiller

26

And then?   James Jeffrey Roche

28

The Tell Tale Heart.   Edgar Allen Poe

28

The Convict’s Hopeless Lot.   An Ex-convict

30

The Star of Bethlehem.   Henry Kirke White

31

Success in Life.   James A. Garfield

31

The Hindoo’s Search for Truth

32

The Spiritualist.   L. W.

33

Last Charge of Ney.   J. T. Headley

35

The Song of the Headlight.   Hardy Jackson

36

One of the Signers.   John Greenleaf Whittier

37

Apparitions.   Thomas Carlyle

38

Farewell to Nature.   Thomas Gordon Hake

39

Jim.   James Whitcomb Riley

40

Grant’s Strategy.   Judge Veazey

41

Just for To-day

42

A Hero of the Tropics.   I. Edgar Jones

42

Priests unto God.   Rose Terry Cooke

43

The Mayflower.   Edward Everett

44

The Veiled Statue at Sais.   Friedrich Schiller

45

Death of Hamilton.   Eliphalet Nott

46

The Soldier’s Return.   Susanna Blamire

47

Vicissitudes of 1849.   Horace Greeley

47

Washington.   Phillips

48

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A Bachelor.   By Edgar I. Brenner

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A City Incident.   George Bancroft Griffith

20

A Noble Mind in a Grand Body

38

A Paraphrase of Seneca.   By Eugene Field

17

A Picture.   By H. Antoine D’Arcy

15

After Death in Arabia.   Sir Edwin Arnold

8

An Old Temperance Poem

29

Batyushka.   T. B. Aldrich

15

Ballad of the Bloody Brook.  By Edward Everett Hale

3

Boys, Go Home

25

Comfort One Another

44

Crying for the Moon

35

Death Carol.   Walt. Whitman

19

Evil of Duelling.   By Lyman Beecher

12

Extract from “How I Consulted the Oracle of the Goldfishes.”   James Russell Lowell

10

Farmer Kent’s Parson.   Margaret Holmes

40

Found Dead.   By Sarah T. Bolton

26

Good-by Er Howdy-do?   J. Whitcomb Riley

42

Have Patience

44

If.   By Anstiss W. Curtiss

46

Illusions.   By E. A.

36

In Eulogy of Water.   By Emory Storrs

8

Moral Power of Public Opinion. Daniel Webster

20

No National Greatness Without Morality.  By W. E. Channing

45

Nobility

48

Old Boys.   George W. Bungay

39

Our Lady of the Mine

24

One of the Multitude.   By Margaret Veley

47

“Our Times not Degenerate.”   By Chas. Emory Smith

5

Patient Mercy Jones.   By James T. Fields

13

Remembrance of Wrongs.   Rufus Choate

10

Royalty.   Thomas S. Collier

7

The Skeleton Soldier.   Mrs. Findley Braden

33

The Stones of Manhattan.   By Willis Fletcher Johnson

34

The Two Brothers.   By B. E. E.

9

The King’s Daughters

21

The Centre of Gravity

22

The Four Princes.   Arthur G. Geoghegan

23

The Poet’s Political Thoughts.   John Greenleaf Whittier

25

The Man Who Rode to Conemaugh.   John Eliot Bowen

37

The Game of Warriors

41

The Yellow Sands of Sussex.   By Douglas Sladen

43

The Face Upon the Floor.   H. Antoine D’Arcy

16

The King’s Dust.   Harriet Prescott Spofford

12

The Church and the World.   By Mathilda C. Edwards

27

The Simple Man and the Wise Man.   Pollok

45

The Moan of the Attic.   Margaret J. Preston

4

To Florence Nightingale of England.   By John Greenleaf Whittier

10

Two.   By Rose Terry Cooke

11

Under the Daisies

32

Waiting for the Mail.   By S. W. Foss

40

War with Big Guns

30

“Where the Willow Makes a Shade”

18

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The Sacrifice of Abraham.   N. P. Willis

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The Angel and the Shepherds. (From Ben Hur).   Lew Wallace

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The Dead Student.   Will M. Carleton

6

Henry W. Grady.   James Whitcomb Riley

7

The Fratricide.   John Greenleaf Whittier

8

Back from the War.   T. De Witt Talmage

10

The Luck of Edenhall.   H. W. Longfellow

10

That Waltz of Von Weber.   Nora Perry

11

Water and Rum.   John B. Gough

12

The Boy who helps his Mother

13

Teamster Jim.   R. J. Burdette

14

Miriam’s Song.   Thomas Moore

14

Toussaint L’Ouverture.   Wendell Phillips

15

The Engineer’s Story.   Eugene J. Hall

16

The Influence of Woman.   Webster

16

His Mother’s Songs

17

Mother’s Doughnuts.   Charles F. Adams

18

Useless Philosophers

18

The Grave.   H. W. Longfellow

19

I wouldn’t—Would you?   Anonymous

19

Despair.   Dow, Jr.

20

The Wife’s Appeal

21

Praying for Shoes.   Paul Hamilton Hayne

21

The New South.   H. W. Grady

23

Lincoln.   James R. Lowell

24

The Lady of the Rock.   Thomas Dunn English

25

A Ballad of East and West.   Yussuf

27

The Light from over the Range

28

Charlie Wong.   H. Antoine D’Arcy

30

The Indian’s Tale.  John Greenleaf Whittier

31

Cities.   Anonymous

32

The Leper.   N. P. Willis

33

The Death of the Count Armaniac.   A. Mary F. Robinson

36

One Thing at a Time

36

Song of the Mountaineers.   T. Buchanan Read

37

The Battle Hymn.   Theodore Körner

38

A Beautiful Death.   Eli Perkins

38

Annie’s Ticket

39

Bad Prayers.   Bronson Alcott

39

Mattie Stephenson.   Anonymous

40

The Two Pictures

40

Where God’s Hand is Seen.   Captain Jack Crawford

42

The Sway of the Senses

43

Burial of the Minnisink.   H. W. Longfellow

44

Mary O’Connor, the Volunteer’s Wife.   Mary A. Denison

45

The Preservation of the Union.   Daniel Webster

45

Our Women Heroes.   Kate Brownlee Sherwood

46

The Prayers of all Living Creatures

46

Wisdom Dearly Purchased.   Edmund Burke

47

Keep Pegging Away

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The Seeking.   J. T. Trowbridge

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The Ballad of the King’s Jest.   Yussuf

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Two Offerings.   Henry W. Longfellow

6

A History.   T. De Witt-Talmagen

7

The Senator’s Grandmother.   Patience Stapleton

8

The March of the Years.   Marianne Farningham

10

The Song of the Sirens.   F. Marion Crawford

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Agriculture.   D. S. Dickinson

12

Wealth Untold.   Charles Mackay, LL.D.

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Irish Hearts and Irish Hands.   Mary E. Blake

13

Fame, Wealth, Life, Death.   Walter W. Skeat

14

Down in the Valley.   M. Quad

15

The Home Fireside.   Mary Rowles

16

Some Things Forever

17

Stratford Fountain.   Oliver Wendell Holmes

17

Sympathy.   Chriss Wilson

19

The World is what we make it.   S. Moore

19

A Woman’s Story

19

Life’s Game of Ball

21

The most gifted of Mortals

22

To a Lady for a Picture of Pansies.   T. W. Parsons

23

Just Away.   J. W. Riley

23

The Lost Kiss.   J. W. Riley

24

The Wonderful Country.   John Boyle O’Reilly

24

The Power of Love.   J. W. Donovan

25

Lost at Sea.   C. S. Williams

25

Lost in the Clouds.   Mary E. Bryan

26

The Dome of the Republic.   Anonymous

28

Margaret.   Henry William Herbert

28

Wasted.   Rev. J. F. Norton

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Gentleman Jim.   Daniel O’Connell

30

Civilization of Africa.   Edward Everett

31

A Story of Fredericksburg.   Herbert W. Collingwood

31

Grandfather’s Rose.   Mary A. Denison

32

The Mirage.   H. T. B.

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Christianity Essential to Liberty.   Kossuth

33

Two Sinners.   Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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The Shunammite.   N. P. Willis

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The Demon of the Fire.   Edgar A. Poe

37

The Successful Farmer

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Who carries on the Business.   Alfred J. Hough

38

Happy the Man of Steadfast Faith.   Solomon Solis-Cohen

39

The Sailor Boy’s Sister.   Francis Lucas

39

Human Love

40

My Picture Gallery.   Adelaide Anne Proctor

40

A Pack of Cards.   Janet Cossar

41

A Lame Boy’s Query.   Alexander L. Kinkead

42

Kate.   B. F. Sawyer

43

The Ould Canteen

43

The Cell of the Missionary.   W. L. Bowles

44

Uncle Jake.   Kris Kyle

45

The Tyneside Widow.   Algernon Charles Swinburne

46

The Convict’s Mother.   Katherine S. Mason

47

Of His Pitiable Transformation.   Robert Louis Stevenson

47

Ostler Joe.   Geo. R. Sims

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The Dying Umpire

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Goliath and David

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