23 Mrs. Caudle's Lecture on Shirt Buttons.. Mark Twain's Opinion of "Chambermaids".........S. C. Clemens. ii. Mr. Caudle has been made a Mason....... ..Douglas Jerrold. iii. Mark Twain's first interview with Artemus Ward....S. C. Clemens. iv. Mrs. Caudle urging the need of Spring Clothing..Douglas Jerrold. iv. Mark Twain's Description of European Guides......S. C. Clemens. iv. Mark Twain's "Great Beef Contract". 151 11 83 100 CHOICE SELECTIONS No. 1. OH, WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF MORTAL BE PROUD? OH, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, The infant a mother attended and loved; The mother that infant's affection who proved; The maid on whose cheek, on whose brow, in whose eye, The hand of the king that the sceptre hath borne; The peasant whose lot to sow and to reap; The herdsman, who climbed with his goats up the steep; The saint who enjoyed the communion of heaver, MIA OL So the multitude goes, like the flowers or the weed So the multitude comes, even those we behold, For we are the same our fathers have been; The thoughts we are thinking our fathers would think; They loved, but the story we cannot unfold; They died, aye! they died; and we things that are now, Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage road. Yea! hope and despondency, pleasure and pain, 'Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath; THE AMERICAN FLAG.-By Joseph Rodman Drake. WHEN Freedom, from her mountain height, She tore the azure robe of night, |