The Theatrical Speaker. A Selection of the Newest and Most Popular Recitations of the Present Day

Outalissi's Death Song

How-d'ye-do and Good-bye

Gertrude Von Der Wart

Billy Dip

Tell's Speech

The Country Schoolmaster

Alonzo the Brave

The Old Man, his Son, and Ass

On the Downfall of Poland

Parody on Lord Ullin's Daughter

The Drunkard and his Bottle

Death of Marmion

The Father Reformed

Paisley: G. Caldwell and Son

1840

24 pages

Chapbook #32 in a bound collection of 34 chapbooks

A collection of ballads, recitations, and verse, including a death-song of a Native American chief, a martyr’s lament who refuses to leave her husband’s side as he is tortured to death, a humorous song about an aging widow and a dyer, a celebration of the American landscape and liberty, a humorous song about a schoolmaster, a gothic tale of an unfaithful woman visited by the ghoulish apparition of her betrayed lover at her wedding, a moral tale encouraging young men not to pay mind to jeerers, a lament describing the fall of Poland, the story of a weaver who loses his pack in the snow, the song of a drunkard before and after drinking, a description of the death of Marmion at Flodden, and a conversation between a father and son detailing the evils of drinking.

Poland

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