PAGE _Captain Reece_ 13 _The Rival Curates_ 18 _Only a Dancing Girl_ 24 _To a Little Maid_ 27 _The Troubadour_ 28 _Ferdinando and Elvira_; _or_, _the Gentle Pieman_ 33 _To my Bride_ 37 _Sir Macklin_ 39 _The Yarn of the_ “_Nancy Bell_” 44 _The Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo_ 48 _The Precocious Baby_ 54 _To Phœbe_ 59 _Baines Carew_, _Gentleman_ 60 _Thomas Winterbottom Hance_ 66 _A Discontented Sugar Broker_ 72 _The Pantomime_ “_Super_” _to his Mask_ 78 _The Ghost_, _the Gallant_, _the Gael_, _and the Goblin_ 80 _The Phantom Curate_ 85 _King Borria Bungalee Boo_ 88 _Bob Polter_ 93 _The Story of Prince Agib_ 99 _Ellen McJones Aberdeen_ 104 _Peter the Wag_ 109 _To the Terrestrial Globe_ 114 _Gentle Alice Brown_ 115 _Mister William_ 120 _The Bumboat Woman’s Story_ 125 _Lost Mr. Blake_ 131 _The Baby’s Vengeance_ 137 _The Captain and the Mermaids_ 143 _Annie Protheroe_. _A Legend of Stratford-le-Bow_ 149 _An Unfortunate Likeness_ 155 _The King of Canoodle-dum_ 161 _The Martinet_ 167 _The Sailor Boy to his Lass_ 173 _The Reverend Simon Magus_ 179 _My Dream_ 184 _The Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo again_ 189 _The Haughty Actor_ 194 _The Two Majors_ 200 _Emily_, _John_, _James_, _and I_. _A Derby Legend_ 205 _The Perils of Invisibility_ 210 _The Mystic Selvagee_ 215