Dick and Fitzgerald Catalog (1866)

Signor Billsmethi's Dancing Academy

Der Goot Lookin Shnow

The Jumping Frog

The Lost Chord

The Tale of a Leg

That West-side Dog

How Dennis Took the Pledge

The Fisherman's Summons

Badger's Debut as Hamlet

Hezekiah Stole the Spoons

Paddy's Dream

Victuals and Drink

How Jake Schneider Went Blind

Aurelia's Young Man

Mrs. Brown on Modern Houses

Farm Yard Song

Murphy's Pork Barrel

The Prayer Seeker

An Extraordinary Phenomenon

The Case of Young Bangs

A Mule Ride in Florida

Dhree Shkaders

Dick's Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches. Containing the following Rich Collection of Negro Dialogues, Scenes, Farces, End-Men's Jokes, Gags, Rollicking Stories, Excruciating Conundrums, Questions and Answers for Bones, Tambo and Interlocutor, etc. Contents:

I's Gwine to Jine de Masons

Jes' Nail dat Mink to de Stable Do' – Oration

But the Villain still Pursued Her – A Thrilling Tale

Bones at a Free-and-Easy

Buncombe Speech

Shakespeare Improved

End Gag – Bones and Tambo

A Man of Nerve – Comic Sketch

End Gag – Bones and Tambo

Uncle Pete – Darkey Sketch

The Rival Darkeys

The Stage-Struck Darkey

Add Ryman's Fourth of July Oration

Absent-Mindedness – Bones and Tambo

Don't Call a Man a Liar

The Mysterious Darkey

Rev Uncle Jim's Sermon

The 'Possum-Run Debating Society

Tim Murphy's Irish Stew

Brudder Bones in Love – Interlocutor and Bones

'Lixey: or, The Old Gum Game – Negro Scene

Brudder Bones' Duel

Brudder Bones' Sweetheart

Brudder Bones in Hard Luck

Two Left-Bones and Tambo

Speech on Boils

How Bones Cured a Smoky Chimney

Sermon on Keards, Hosses, Fiddlers, etc.

Huggin' Lamp-Posts

Not Opposed to Matrimony

How Pat Sold a Dutchman

The Coopers – one Act Farce

Questions Easily Answered – Bones and Tambo

Examination in Natural History – Minstrel Dialogue

O'Quirk's Sinecure

The Widower's Speech

Bones at a Raffle

Uncle Pete's Sermon

Bones at a Soiree – Interlocutor and Bones

Speech on Woman's Rights

Bones' Discovery

Mark Twain Introduces Himself – Characteristic Speech

Speech on Happiness

Burnt Corkers – Minstrel Dialogue

The Nervous Woman

The Five Senses – Minstrel Dialogue

The Dutchman's Experience

Essay on the Wheelbarrow

Bones at a Pic-Nic

The Virginia Mummy – Negro Farce

Brudder Bones in Clover

Artemus Ward's Advice to Husbands

Where the Lion Roareth, and the Wang-Doodle Mourneth

Romeo and Juliet in 1880

Artemus Ward's Panorama

Brudder Bones as a Carpet-Bagger – Interlocutor and Bones

Major Jones' Fourth of July Oration

Curiosities for a Museum – Minstrel Dialogue

Burlesque Oration on Matrimony

Brudder Bones on the Raging Canawl

The Snackin'-Turtle Man – Ethiopian Sketch

Bones' Dream – Ethiopian Sketch

Come and Hug Me

Widow O'Brien's Toast

Scenes at the Police Court – Musical Minstrel Dialogue

Brudder Bones as a Log-Roller

De Pint Wid Old Pete – Negro Dialect Recitation

A Touching Appeal – Dutch Dialect Recitation

Wounded in the Corners

Darkey Dialogue

End Gag – Interlocutor and Bones

Kavanaugh's New Speeches and Dialogues for Young Children. Containing easy pieces in plain language, readily understood by little children, and expressly adapted for School Exhibitions and Christmas and other juvenile celebrations. By Mrs. Russell Kavanaugh. This is an entirely new series of Recitations and Dialogues by this author, and full of pieces, in her well-known style of familiar simplicity, admirably calculated to give the little ones additional opportunities to distinguish themselves before an audience. It contains the following:

Howard's Recitations. Comic, Serious and Pathetic. Collection of fresh Recitations in Prose and Poetry, suitable for Anniversaries, Exhibitions, Social Gatherings, and Evening Parties. Contents:

Miss Malony on the Chinese Question

Kit Carson's Ride

Buck Fanshaw's Funeral

Knocked About

Puzzled Dutchman

Shamus O'Brien

Naughty Little Girl

Bells of Shandon

No Sect in Heaven

Rory O'Moore's Present

"Mother's Fool"

Queen Elizabeth – a Comic Oration

The Starling

Lord Dundreary's Riddle

The Stuttering Lass

The Irish Traveler

The Remedy as Bad as the Disease

A Subject for Dissection

The Heathen Chinee

Mona's Waters

A Showman on the Woodchuck

How Happy I'll Be

A Frenchman's Account of the Fall

Isabel's Grave

Parson and the Spaniel

An Irishman's Letter

Irish Letter

The Halibut in Love

The Merry Soap-Boiler

The Unbeliever

The Voices at the Throne

Dundreary Proposing

The Fireman

Paul Revere's Ride

Annie and Willie's Prayer

A Frenchman on Macbeth

The New Church Organ

Katrina Likes me Poody Vell

How to Save a Thousand Pounds

How I Got Invited to Dinner

Patient Joe

Jimmy Butler and the Owl

The Menagerie

Old Quizzle

Infidel and Quaker

The Lawyer and the Chimney-Sweeper

Bill Mason's Bride

Judging by Appearances

The Death's Head

Betsey and I are Out

Betsey Destroys the Paper

Father Blake's Collection

Blank Verse in Rhyme

Roguery Taught

Banty Tim

Antony and Cleopatra

Deacon Hezekiah

The Frenchman and the Landlord

The Family Quarrel – A Dialogue on the Sixteenth Amendment

The Guess

Atheist and Acorn

Brother Watkins

Hans in a Fix

To-Morrow

The Highgate Butcher

The Lucky Call

Challenging the Foreman

Country Schoolmaster

The Matrimonial Bugs and the Travelers

Peter Sorghum in Love

Tim Tuff

Nick Van Stann

The Debating Society

Deacon Stokes

To Our Honored Dead

The Dying Soldier

The Yankee Fireside

The Suicidal Cat

The Son's Wish

Spencer's Book of Comic Speeches and Humorous Recitations. A collection of Comic Speeches and Dialogues, Dramatic Scenes and Characteristic Soliloquies and Stories Suitable for School Exhibitions. Contents:

Comic Prologue and Introduction

The Yankee Landlord

His Eye was Stern

The Goddess of Slang

Dick, the Apprentice

Courting in French Hollow

The Case Altered

Fox and the Ranger

The Declaration

The Warrantee Deed

A Night's Adventure

Julia – Comic Love Scene

Saying not Meaning

Negro Burlesque for 3 males

The Nimmers

Gucom and the Back-log

Widow Bedott's Mistake

How a Bashful Lover "Popped the Question"

Crossing Dixie

My Last Shirt

The Three Black Crows

The Barber's Shop

Paddy O'Rafther

Decidedly Cool

Frenchman and the Rats

The Jester Condemned to Death

Kindred Quacks

Hans Breitmann's Party

The Generous Frenchman

Saint Jonathan

Stump Speech

The Rival Lodgers

The Frenchman and the Mosquitoes

The Maiden's Mishap

The Removal

Talking Latin

Praying for Rain

Darkey Photographer

Paddy and his Musket

Hezekiah Bedoit

Uncle Reuben's Tale

Mr. Caudle has been to a Fair

Chemist and his Love

Disgusted Dutchman

The Frightened Traveler

Jewess and her Son

Clerical Wit – True Lies

The School House

Daniel versus Dishclout

Spectacles

The Pig

A Stray Parrot

Dame Fredegonde

Toby Tosspot

Courtship and Matrimony

Rings and Seals

The Biter Bit

Pat and the Gridiron

Barmecide's Feast

The Country Pedagogue

The Middle-aged Man and Two Widows

Saratoga Waiter – Negro Scene for 2 males

The Wrangling Pair – A Poetical Dialogue for Male and Female

A Connubial Eclogue

The Italian from Cork

Gasper Schnapps' Exploit

Epilogue – Suitable for Conclusion of an Entertainment

Martine's Droll Dialogues and Laughable Recitations. A collection of Humorous Dialogues, Comic Recitations and Spirited Stump Speeches and Farces, adapted for School and other Celebrations. Contents:

Hints to Amateur Actors.

Humorous Poetical Address

The Bell and the Gong

Mrs. Dove's Boarding House

The Wilkins Family

The Lawyer's Stratagem

Eulogy on Laughing

Drawing a Long Bow. For 3 males and 1 female.

The Origin of Woman's Ascendency over Man

Veny Raynor's Bear Story

The Game of Life

The Fortune Hunter. For 2 males and 3 females

The Parson and the Widow

Hezekiah Stubbins' Fourth of July Oration

Make your Wills. Farce for 7 male characters

Mr. Rogers and Monsieur Denise

Job Trotter's Secret

The Darkey Debating Society. Dialogue for 2 males

The Scandal Monger. Dialogue for 2 males and 2 females

Poor Richard's Sayings

Prologue to "The Apprentice"

Address in the character of "Hope" A Prologue

Parody on the Declaration of Independence

Bombastes Furioso. A Burlesque for 7 males

Characteristic Address

Examining de Bumps. Ethiopian Dialogue for 2 males

Election Stump Speech

A Matrimonial Tiff. Dialogue for 1 male and 2 females

The Frenchman and the Sheep's Trotters

The Poor Relation. Comic Drama for 7 males

Vat you Please

The Babes in the Wood. For 3 males and 4 females.

My Aunt.

Handy Andy's Mistakes.

The Cat Eater.

A Shocking Mistake. Dialogue for 3 males and 2 females

Wanted a Governess

Rival Broom Makers

Paudeen O'Rafferty's Say-Voyage

Mr. Caudle's Wedding Dinner

Our Cousins. Negro Dialogue for 2 male characters

Mr. Caudle made a Mason

Address of Sergeant Buzfuz

The Wonderful Whalers

Sam Weller's Valentine

Wilson's Book of Recitations and Dialogues. Containing a choice selection of Poetical and Prose Recitations. Designed as an Assistant to Teachers and Students in preparing Exhibitions. By Floyd B. Wilson, Professor of Elocution. Contents:

Instruction In Elocution

Dedication of Gettysburg Cemetery

Sheridan's Ride

There's but one Pair of Stockings

Modulation

Drummer Boy's Burial

John Maynard, the Pilot

The Boys

The Duel

Lochiel's Warning

Socrates Snooks

Mosaic Poetry

Burial of the Champion of his Class at Yale College

Scott and the Veteran

Barbara Frietchie

I Wouldn't – Would You?

The Professor Puzzled

Thanatopsis

The Two Roads

The Pawnbroker's Shop

The Sophomore's Soliloquy

The Nation's Hymn

Address to a Skeleton

A Glass of Cold Water

Little Gretchen; or New Year's Eve

Good News from Ghent

The Sea Captain's Story

Our Heroes

The Closing Year

Burial of Little Nell

The Picket Guard

The Poor Man and the Fiend

Our Country's Call

The Conquered Banner

The High Tide; or, the Brides of Enderby

Death of Gaudentis

Don Garzia

Past Meridian

The Founding of Gettysburg Monument

Spartacus to the Gladiators

Soliloquy of the Dying Alchemist

The Country Justice

Unjust National Acquisition

Dimes and Dollars

Dead Drummer Boy

Home

Responsibility of American Citizens

The Jester's Sermon

Left on the Battle Field

The American Flag

Oh! Why should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud?

Parrhasius

The Vagabonds

A Bridal Wine Cup

Blanche of Devan's Last Words

Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles

A Psalm of the Union

Charge of a Dutch Magistrate

Stars in my Country's Sky

Bingen on the Rhine

Religious Character of President Lincoln

The Raven

The Loyal Legion

Agnes and the Years

Cataline's Defiance

Our Folks

The Beautiful Snow

The Ambitious Youth

The Flag of Washington

The Abbot of Waltham

Ode to an Infant Son

The Scholar's Mission

Claude Melnotte's Apology

Forging of the Anchor

Wreck of the Hesperus

The Man of Ross

No Work the Hardest Work

What is Time?

Brutus's Oration over the Body of Lucretia

What is That, Mother?

A Colloquy with Myself

St. Philip Neri and the Youth

The Chameleon

Henry the Fourth's Soliloquy on Sleep

On Procrastination

Appendix

Brudder Bones' Book of Stump Speeches and Burlesque Orations. Also containing Humorous Lectures, Ethiopian Dialogues, Plantation Scenes, Negro Farces and Burlesques, Laughable Interludes and Comic Recitations. Contents:

If I may so Speak. Burlesque Oration

Dr. Pillsbury's Lecture on Politics

Vegetable Poetry. For 2 males

Teco Brag's Lecture on Astronomy

We saw Her but a Moment

Stocks Up, Stocks Down. For 2 males

Brudder Bones' Love Scrapes.

Stump Speech; or, "Any other Man."

War's your Hoss. Dialogue Recital

Geology. Dialogue for 2 males

Tin-pan-o-ni-on. For Leader and Orchestra

Dr. Puff Stuff's Lecture on Patent Medicines

Sailing. For 2 males

Challenge Dance. For 3 males

Lecture on Bad Boys

Tony Pastor's Great Union Speech

A Tough Boarding House

Sleeping Child. 2 males

Ain't I Right, Eh? Speech

Wonderful Egg. For 2 males

Bootblack's Soliloquy

Lecture to a Fire Company

Julius' Peaches. For 2 males

De Trouble Begins at Nine

The Arkansas Traveler. For 2 Violin players

Slap Jack. For 2 Darkeys

Turkey-town Celebration. An Oration

Uncle Steve's Stump Speech

A Midnight Murder

Dat's What's de Matter

The Freezing Bed Feller

Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins

Paddy Fagan's Pedigree

The Rival Darkeys. Act for 2 males

Hans Sourcrout on Signs and Omens

Hun-ki-do-ris Fourth of July Oration

Josh Billings on Mosquitoes

History of Cap. John Smith

A Speech on Women

Impulsive Peroration

The Bet. For 2 Darkeys

Old Times gone By. Dialogue for 2 Darkeys

The Echo. Act for 2 Negroes

Sol Slocum's Bugle.

Western Stump Speech

In the Show Business. Dialogue for 2 males

"We are." Stump Oration

Original Burlesque Oration

Waiting to see Him off. For 2 males

Patriotic Stump Speech

De Railroad Accident. For 2 Darkeys

The Dutchman's Lecture

Prof. Unworth's Lecture

The Three old Ladies

Josh Billings' Lecture onto Musick

Brudder Bones' Lady-Love. Dialogue for 2 males

Deaf – In a Horn. Act for 2 males

Or any oder Man's Dog. A Speech

Happy Uncle Tom

Stick a Pin Dere, Brudder Horace

Lecture on Woman's Rights

Dat's wot de "Ledger" says. For 2 Darkeys

Goose Hollow Stump Speech

De Milk in de Cocoa Nut

A Dutchman's Answer

Lecture on Cats

The Patent Screw

The Auctioneer

Hints on Courtship

Dutch Recruiting Officer

Spirit Rappings. Dialogue for 2 males

Dar's de Money

Let Her Rip. Burlesque Lecture

The Stranger. Scene for 1 male and 1 female

Dick's Diverting Dialogues. A collection of effective Dramatic Dialogues, written expressly for this work by various authors, and adapted for Parlor Performances. They are short, full of telling "situations," introducing easy dialect characters, and present the least possible difficulties in scenery and costume to render them exceedingly attractive. Edited by Wm. B. Dick.

Including a complete programme of effective Living Portraits and Tableaux, with full directions for exhibiting them successfully.

Dick's Comic and Dialect Recitations. A capital collection of Comic Recitations, Ludicrous Dialogues, Funny Stories, and Inimitable Dialect Pieces, containing:

An Æsthetic Housekeeper

At the Rug Auction

Aunt Sophronia Tabor at the Opera – Yankee Dialect

Awfully Lovely Philosophy

Bad Boy and the Limburger Cheese, The

Barbara Frietchie – Dutch

Boy in the Dime Museum

Bric-a-Brac

Brudder Johnson on 'Lectricity – Negro Dialect

Butterwick's Weakness

By Special Request

Can this be True?

Champion Liar, The

Conversion of Colonel Quagg

Cut, Cut Behind – Dutch

Debit and Credit in the Next World

Der Oak und der Vine

Der 'Sperience of Reb'rend Quacko Strong – Negro

Der Vater Mill

Doctor's Story.

Dutch Advertisement.

Dutchman and the Raven

Dutch Security – Dutch

Early Bird, The

Gentle Mule, The

Granny Whar You Gwine?

Girl of Culture.

Goin' Somewhere – Yankee

Go-Morrow, or Lot's Wife

Hard Witness, A

Horse that Wins the Race

How a Woman Does It

How Buck was Brought to Time – Yankee Dialect

How Uncle Fin had the Laugh on the Boys

Humming Top, The

In der Shweed Long Ago

Inquisitive Boy, The

Irishman's Perplexity, An

Jim Onderdonk's Sunday-School Oration

John Chinaman's Protest

Juvenile Inquisitor, A

Malony's Will – Irish Dialect

Mark Twain on the 19th Century

Mickey Feeny and the Priest

Mine Moder-in-Law

Mother's Doughnuts

Mr. and Mrs. Potterman

Mr. Schmidt's Mistake

Mr. Spoopendyke Hears Burglars

O'Branigan's Drill

Old Bill Stevens

Old Erasmus' Temperance Pledge – Negro Dialect

Ole Settlers' Meetun

Original Love Story, An

Our Debating Club

Parson Jinglejaw's Surprise

Pat's Correspondence

Pleasures of the Telephone

Positively the Last Performance – Cockney Dialect

Raven, The – Dutch Dialect

Sad Fate of a Policeman

Scripture Questions

Sermon for the Sisters, A

Solemn Book-Agent, The

That Fire at Nolan's

That Freckle-Faced Girl

The Latest Barbara Frietchie – Dutch Dialect

The Paper Don't Say

Thikhead's New Year's Call

Tickled all Oafer

'Twas at Manhattan Beach

Uncle Billy's Disaster

Uncle Mellick Dines with his Master – Negro Dialect

Uncle Remus' Tar Baby

Uncle Reuben's Baptism

United Order of Half-Shells

Waiter's Trials, A

Warning to Woman, A

Ways of Girls at the Play

Western Artist's Accomplishments, A

Wily Bee, The

Woman's Description of a Play, A

Yaller Dog, The

Barton's Comic Recitations and Humorous Dialogues. Containing a variety of Comic Recitations in Prose and Poetry, Amusing Dialogues, Burlesque Scenes, Eccentric Orations, Humorous Interludes and Laughable Farces.

A Prologue to Open an Entertainment

The Stage-Struck Hero

Here She Goes – and There She Goes

Pastor M'Knock's Address

Old Sugar's Courtship

The Bachelor's Reasons for Taking a Wife

The Spanish Valet and the Maid – Dialogue for 1 male and 1 Female.

The Jackdaw of Rheims

Jonathan and the Englishman

Artemus Ward's Trip

Auctioneer and the Lawyer

Mr. and Mrs. Skinner

The Bachelor and the Bride

Drunkard and his Wife

A Western Lawyer's Plea against the Fact

Reading a Tragedy

Cast-off Garments

How to Cure a Cough

The Soldier's Return

Countrymen and the Ass

Come and Go

How they Pop the Question

The Clever Idiot

The Knights

How the Lawyer got a Patron Saint

Josh Billings on Laughing

Night after Christmas

A Change of System – for 2 males and 1 female

Citizen and the Thieves

Bogg's Dogs

The Smack in School

The Tinker and the Miller's Daughter

An Original Parody

The Parsons and the Corkscrew

The Old Gentleman who Married a Young Wife

Stage-Struck Darkey – Interlude for males

Goody Grim versus Lapstone – Dialogue for 4 males

The Woman of Mind

Wanted, a Confederate – Farce for 4 males

Lodgings for Single Gentlemen

Nursery Reminiscences

The Farmer and the Councellor

The Pugilists

How Pat Saved his Bacon

The Irish Drummer

Mike Hooter's Bear Story

The Critic

Mr. Caudle Wants a Latch Key

Humbugging a Tourist

The Widow's Victim – for 2 males and 1 female

Josh Rillings on the Mule

Tinker and the Glazier

Wonderful Dream – Negro Dialogue for 2 males

An Occasional Address – For a Lady's First Appearance

An Occasional Prologue – For Opening a Performance

Address on Closing a Performance

A Prologue for a Performance by Boys

An Epilogue for a School Performance

DEBATES AND READY MADE SPEECHES

Barber's American Book of Ready-Made Speeches. Containing 159 original examples of Humorous and Serious Speeches, suitable for every possible occasion where a speech may be called for, together with appropriate replies to each. Including:

Presentation Speeches.

Convivial Speeches.

Festival Speeches.

Addresses of Congratulation.

Addresses of Welcome.

Addresses of Compliment.

Political Speeches.

Dinner and Supper Speeches for Clubs.

Off-Hand Speeches on a Variety of Subjects.

Miscellaneous Speeches.

Toasts and Sentiments for Public and Private Entertainments.

Preambles and Resolutions of Congratulation, Compliment and Condolence.

With this book any person may prepare himself to make a neat little speech, or reply to one when called upon to do so. They are all short, appropriate and witty, and even ready speakers may profit by them.

How to Conduct a Debate. A Series of Complete Debates, Outlines of Debates and Questions for Discussion. In the complete debates, the questions for discussion are defined, the debate formally opened, an array of brilliant arguments adduced on either side, and the debate closed according to parliamentary usages. The second part consists of questions for debate, with heads of arguments, for and against, given in a condensed form, for the speakers to enlarge upon to suit their own fancy. In addition to these is a large collection of debatable questions. The authorities to be referred to for information are given at the close of every debate throughout the work. By F. Rowton. 232 pages.