{"product_id":"2940013145368","title":"Humorous Readings \u0026 Recitations","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                 PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ACCOMPANIED ON THE FLUTE             _F. Anstey_                  1\u003cbr\u003e  THE TROUBLES OF A TRIPLET            _W. Beatty-Kingston_         8\u003cbr\u003e  SLIGHTLY DEAF                        _Bracebridge Hemming_       10\u003cbr\u003e  THE LADY FREEMASON                   _H. T. Craven_              18\u003cbr\u003e  WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT!            _F. B. Harrison_            24\u003cbr\u003e  THE FATAL LEGS                       _Walter Browne_             27\u003cbr\u003e  THE CALIPH'S JESTER                  _From the Arabic_           29\u003cbr\u003e  A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF NOTHING       _Wilkie Collins_            32\u003cbr\u003e  GEMINI AND VIRGO                     _C. S. Calverley_           37\u003cbr\u003e  KING BIBBS                           _James Albery_              41\u003cbr\u003e  MOLLY MULDOON                        _Anonymous_                 48\u003cbr\u003e  THE HARMONIOUS LOBSTERS              _Robert Reece_              52\u003cbr\u003e  THE PROVINCIAL LANDLADY              _H. Chance Newton_          57\u003cbr\u003e  MY MATRIMONIAL PREDICAMENT           _Leopold Wagner_            58\u003cbr\u003e  ETIQUETTE                            _W. S. Gilbert_             62\u003cbr\u003e  A LOST SHEPHERD                      _Frank Barrett_             65\u003cbr\u003e  A MATHEMATIC MADNESS                 _F. P. Dempster_            70\u003cbr\u003e  WAITING AT TOTTLEPOT                 _J. Ashby-Sterry_           72\u003cbr\u003e  MARRIED TO A GIANTESS                _Walter Parke_              75\u003cbr\u003e  THE VISION OF THE ALDERMAN           _Henry S. Leigh_            79\u003cbr\u003e  THE DEMON SNUFFERS                   _Geo. Manville Fenn_        80\u003cbr\u003e  THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER         _Lewis Carroll_             86\u003cbr\u003e  MY BROTHER HENRY                     _J. M. Barrie_              89\u003cbr\u003e  A NIGHT WITH A STORK                 _W. E. Wilcox_              92\u003cbr\u003e  THE FAITHFUL LOVERS                  _F. C. Burnand_             95\u003cbr\u003e  THE WAIL OF A BANNER-BEARER          _Arthur Matthison_          96\u003cbr\u003e  THE DREAM OF THE BILIOUS BEADLE      _Arthur Shirley_            99\u003cbr\u003e  MY FRIEND TREACLE                    _Watkin-Elliott_           101\u003cbr\u003e  THE VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD            _Anonymous_                107\u003cbr\u003e  ARTEMUS WARD'S VISIT TO THE TOWER\u003cbr\u003e        OF LONDON                      _Chas. Farrar Browne_      108\u003cbr\u003e  MR. CAUDLE HAS LENT AN ACQUAINTANCE\u003cbr\u003e        THE FAMILY UMBRELLA            _Douglas Jerrold_          111\u003cbr\u003e  DOMESTIC ASIDES                      _Tom Hood_                 113\u003cbr\u003e  THE CHARITY DINNER                   _Litchfield Moseley_       115\u003cbr\u003e  ACTING WITH A VENGEANCE              _W. Sapte, Jun._           120\u003cbr\u003e  MY FORTNIGHT AT WRETCHEDVILLE        _George Augustus Sala_     126\u003cbr\u003e  THE SORROWS OF WERTHER               _W. M. Thackeray_          132\u003cbr\u003e  MORAL MUSIC                          _Anonymous_                133\u003cbr\u003e  BILLY DUMPS, THE TAILOR              _Charles Clark_            136\u003cbr\u003e  ON PUNNING                           _Theodore Hook_            139\u003cbr\u003e  SEASIDE LODGINGS                     _Percy Reeve_              140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHUMOROUS READINGS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRECITATIONS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACCOMPANIED ON THE FLUTE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eF. ANSTEY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Consul Duilius was entertaining Rome in triumph after his celebrated\u003cbr\u003edefeat of the Carthaginian fleet at Mylæ. He had won a great naval\u003cbr\u003evictory for his country with the first fleet that it had ever\u003cbr\u003epossessed--which was naturally a gratifying reflection, and he would\u003cbr\u003ehave been perfectly happy now if he had only been a little more\u003cbr\u003ecomfortable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut he was standing in an extremely rickety chariot, which was crammed\u003cbr\u003ewith his nearer relations, and a few old friends, to whom he had been\u003cbr\u003eobliged to send tickets. At his back stood a slave, who held a heavy\u003cbr\u003eEtruscan crown on the Consul's head, and whenever he thought his master\u003cbr\u003ewas growing conceited, threw in the reminder that he was only a man\u003cbr\u003eafter all--a liberty which at any other time he might have had good\u003cbr\u003ereason to regret.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen the large Delphic wreath, which Duilius wore as well as the crown,\u003cbr\u003ehad slipped down over one eye, and was tickling his nose, while (as both\u003cbr\u003ehis hands were occupied, one with a sceptre the other with a laurel\u003cbr\u003ebough, and he had to hold on tightly to the rail of the chariot whenever\u003cbr\u003eit jolted) there was nothing to do but suffer in silence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey had insisted, too, upon painting him a beautiful bright red all\u003cbr\u003eover, and though it made him look quite new, and very shining and\u003cbr\u003esplendid, he had his doubts at times whether it was altogether becoming,\u003cbr\u003eand particularly whether he would ever be able to get it off again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut these were but trifles after all, and nothing compared with the\u003cbr\u003ehonour and glory of it!","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069831069936,"sku":"2940013145368","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013145368_p0.jpg?v=1763577578","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013145368","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}