A Plea for Humor / A. Repplier -- An Unmarried Female / M. Holley -- Selections from a Brace of Boys / F. Ludlow -- Rheumatism Movement Cure / R. J. Burdette -- An Aphorism and a Lecture / O. W. Holmes -- The Harp of a Thousand Strings / J. S. Morris -- My First Visit to Portland / S. Smith -- The Mosquito / W. C. Bryant -- Country Burial-places / J. Carver -- The Hoosier and the Salt-pile / D. Marble -- The Quilting / A. Bache -- A Fragment / F. Halleck -- Domestic Happiness -- One of Mr. Ward's Business Letters / C. F. Browne ("Artemus Ward") -- On "Forts" -- Without and Within / J. R. Lowell -- Street Scenes in Washington / L. M. Alcott -- Mis' Smith / A. B. Paine -- A Boston Lullaby / J. J. Roohe -- Irish Astronomy / C. G. Halpine -- Bessie Brown, M. D. / S. M. Peok -- A Monody / R. C. Sands -- The Poster Girl / C. Wells -- The Conundrum of the Golf Links / J. G. Sanderson -- The Minister's Wooing / H. B. Stowe -- Mrs. Johnson / W. D. Howells -- The Trout, the Cat and the Fox -- The British Matron.

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