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• The Guardian for Ike, 9

• Autumn, 33

• Twenty Years Married, 34

• Whole-souled Fellows, 36

• Behind the Scenes, 37

• Woman's Sovereignty, 38

• Pets, 39

• By Chance, 40

• Mrs. Partington and the Russian Helmet, 41

• Who is Vile? 42

• The Household Ghost, 43

• Mrs. Partington Patriotic, 44

• Weaning the Baby, 45

• Home Music, 45

• Mrs. Partington at the Ballet, 48

• Flowers, 48

• Involuntary, 49

• Signs of Fall, 50

• Ike's Spring Medicine, 51

• Parting, 52

• Assimilation, 53

• Comparison, 54

• Malapropos, 54

• Mrs. Partington on Surprise Parties, 55

• Individuality, 56

• Misapprehension, 57

• Home Music, 58

• Harvest Hymn, 59

• Mrs. Partington on Horticulture, 60

• A Bit of Nonsense, 61

• Character, 62

• Self-Respect, 62

• Love, 63

• Frenchman's Lane, 64

• The First Suit, 66

• Moral Tendency, 67

• Sympathy with Rascals, 68

• Organic, 69

• Scratching for a Living, 70

• Odorless Roses, 70

• The Pritchard Heirs, 71

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• Don't Fret, 101

• The Dicky, 102

• Heathenish, 103

• Bringing up Children, 104

• Unmet Confidence, 106

• The Dead Sailor, 108

• The Coolies, 109

• Talking Horse, 110

• Pictures, 111

• The Ocean, 112

• Fatality, 112

• A Serious Call, 113

• The Baron of Boston, 114

• Swearing, 115

• The Prima Donna, 116

• Misanthropy, 117

• Measuring Love, 118

• Plebeian Pretension, 119

• The Franklin Statue, 120

• A Way to be Happy, 121

• New England's Lion, 122

• Unnatural Fathers, 122

• A Difficulty, 124

• Love, 124

• Heirlooms, 125

• Don't Look Back, 126

• Good Resolutions, 127

• Mrs. Partington on Music, 128

• Sacrilegious, 129

• An Old Fable Modernized, 130

• Robert Burns, 133

• The Knocking at the Gate, 135

• Mrs. Partington and Ike, 137

• Cold Weather, 138

• An Analogy, 139

• Nahant, 140

• Number One Hundred and One, 141

• Contentment, 146

• The Old Piano, 147

• Ike at Church, 148

• Sounds of the Summer Night, 149

• The Household Shadow, 150

• Character, 151

• A Leaf from a Record, 152

• The Gable, 154

• A Pleasant Story for Jealous People, 155

• A Courting Reminiscence, 168

• Fidgety People, 170

• The Philistines be upon Thee, 171

• Mrs. Partington on Intemperance, 172

• Mrs. Partington and the Telegraph, 172

• Great and Little Struggles, 173

• Died of Cramp, 174

• Cosmetics, 178

• A Tale with a Moral, 179

• Electro-Chemical Baths, 181

• True Courage, 182

• My Grandmother, 183

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• The Mill-Brook, 188

• Damaged Goods, 189

• The Spirit of Seventy-Six, 190

• Ike Partington and Pugilism, 192

• The Old South Bell, 194

• The Falses, 195

• Hard Times, 196

• A Night off Point Judith, 197

• Letter Writing, 197

• Sympathy, 199

• Sea-Air, 200

• An Odd Fellow's Funeral, 201

• The Courts, 202

• Sick of It, 204

• Look Up, 205

• A Domestic Story, 206

• An Inner Shrine, 216

• Constant Dropping Wears, 217

• Emulation, 218

• Partingtonian Wisdom, 219

• A Cup of Tea, 220

• Christmas Hearths and Hearts, 223

• Higher, 260

• Reveries, 261

• Old and Young, 262

• The Valley of the Shadow, 263

• The Model Husband, 265

• Sonnet to Pan, 267

• Illustrative Pantomime, 268

• On the Mississippi, 269

• Mrs. Partington at Saratoga, 270

• A Picture, 271

• Job a Drummer, 272

• A Slight Misconception, 273

• Story of Frazer's River, 274

• Habits, 277

• Checkers, 278

• Grammar, 278

• Feeling, 279

• An Impostor, 279

• Mesmerism and Matrimony, 280

• The Old North Mill-Pond, 285

• The True Philosophy, 287

• A Classic, 289

• Be Contented, 292

• Whist, 293

• To a Heel-Tap, 295

• Oysters, 296

• California Tan, 298

• A Gouty Man's Reverie, 299

• Ike and Lion, 300

• On a Child's Picture, 302

• Wearing Ornaments, 303

• Operatic, 303

• A Narrow Escape, 304

• The World, 306

• Niagara Falls, 307

• Ballad about Bunker, 308

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• Attending the Anniversaries, 309

• The Country Ride, 310

• Economy, 313

• Life's Masquerade, 318

• Mrs. Partington Philosophizing, 319

• Luck, 320

• On such a Night as this, 321

• The Reason, 323

• The Banker's Dream, 324

• Sea-Sickness, 326

• How Curious it is, 328

• Earth Speaketh to Earth, 329

• Without a Speck, 330

• Forced Obedience, 331

• A Life's Fortunes, 332

• Mount Washington, 353

• Albuminous, 354

• Parted Ties, 357

• Unconditional Cheerfulness, 358

• Mrs. Partington grows Desultory, 359

• Emblematic, 359

• A Night of It, 360

• The Preacher and the Children, 369

• Out West, 370

• Conscience, 370

• Babies, 371

• Agricultural, 372

• Mrs. Partington and Patent Medicines, 373

• Song of Chelsea Ferry, 374

• Mr. Blifkins' Baby, 375

• Patience, 377

• Ike's Compositions in School, 378

• Mrs. Sled put out, 388

• Tale of a Horse, 389

• Mrs. Partington on the Currency, 392

• A Fourth of July Incident, 393

• Scratched Gneiss and Bear Skin, 394

• Watering-Places, 395

• Hezekiah and Ruth, 396

• Burglars in the Partington Mansion, 398

• A Text Applied, 400

• Justly Critical, 401

• Starry, 401

• Birth-Day of Lafayette, 402

• Croaking, 403

• Heathen Sympathy, 404

• Whitewashing, 405

• Prospective Summer, 407