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Beecher's recitations and readings : humorous, serious, dramatic, including prose and poetical selections in Dutch, French, Yankee, Irish, Backwoods, Negro, and other dialects

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Beecher, Alvah C

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Includes Mark Twain's Jim Wolfe and the cats, p.20-22; An introduction, p.90; THat dog of Jim Smiley's, p.104-105; The celebrated jumping frog, p.1737-140; and Aurelia's unfortunate young man, p.165-168.
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
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  1. Elocution
  2. Recitations

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