The Poet at the Breakfast Table

   , by Oliver Wendell Holmes; "Plain Language from Truthful James," and "The Society Upon the Stanislaus," from

    Poems

   , by Bret Harte; "Melons," from

    Mrs. Skaggs' Husbands and Other Sketches

   , by Bret Harte; "The Courtin'," "A Letter from Mr. Ezekiel Biglow" and "What Mr. Robinson Thinks," from

    Poems

   , by James Russell Lowell; "The Chief Mate," from

    Fireside Travels

   , by James Russell Lowell; "A Night in a Rocking Chair" and "A Rival Entertainment," from

    Haphazard

   , by Kate Field; "Mrs. Johnson," from

    Suburban Sketches

   , by William Dean Howells; "Garden Ethics," from

    My Summer in a Garden

   , by Charles Dudley Warner; "Our Nearest Neighbor," from

    Marjorie Daw and Other Stories

   , by Thomas Bailey Aldrich; "Simon Starts in the World" (J.J. Hooper), "The Duluth Speech" (J. Proctor Knott), "Bill Arp on Litigation" (C.H. Smith), "Assault and Battery" (J.G. Baldwin), "How Ruby Played" (G.W. Bagby), from

    Oddities of Southern Life

   , edited by Henry Watterson; "The Demon of the Study," from

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