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Excerpt from Best Recitations: Readings, Declamations and Plays; Original Compositions and Choice Selections of the Best Literature; Containing Also the Most Complete and Modern Rules for Voice and Physical Culture; For Home, School and All Public and Social Entertainments Washington's Birthday, Arbor Day, Decoration Day, Flag Day, Fourth o'i July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas. Around the Evening Lamp is a department containing selections to be read or recited in the home circle after the evening lamp has been lit and the family has gath ered around it for entertainment. A great deal of space has been given to dialogues and pieces in which a half dozen or more persons can take part. There is such a great variety of these that some one or more of them will be found suitable for every occasion or form of entertainment that can arise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.