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The Coo-ee Reciter

The Coo-ee Reciter

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Number of Chapters: 42

Length: 03 hours and 08 minutes

Language: English

Recitation was a vital part of the curriculum in education in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It not only enabled students to gain practice in addressing groups in public, but also provided models for the study of accent and elocution – vital skills in the days before public address systems were universally available. Accordingly, a number of “reciters,” or collections of texts suitable for recitation, were published in this period. The Coo-ee Reciter, published in 1904, was one of the most popular of these collections in Australia. In the words of the anthologist it contains a variety of "humorous, pathetic, dramatic and dialect recitations and readings" by Australian, British and American authors.

Inevitably, these collections featured many items that featured the events and attitudes of the period. While many of the pieces can make no claim to be great literature, they do have great value as windows into the experiences, expectations and aspirations of the people at the time.
- Summary by Algy Pug

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I Killed a Man at Graspan by Montague Grover (Algy Pug)
Kitty O'Toole by W.L.Lumley (Algy Pug)
The Ballad of the Drover by Henry Lawson (Algy Pug)
The Rescue by Edward Dyson (Algy Pug)
Saltbush Bill by A.B. Paterson (Algy Pug)
Drought and Doctrine by J. Brunton Stephens (Algy Pug)
The Martyr by Victor J. Daley (Algy Pug)
The Carrying of the Baby by Ethel Turner (Algy Pug)
The Old Gum by Florence Bullivant (Algy Pug)
Murphy shall not Sing To-night by Montague Grover (Algy Pug)
Christmas Bells by John B. O'Hara (Algy Pug)
Wool is Up by Garnet Walch (Algy Pug)
Wool is Down by Garnet Walch (Algy Pug)
The Highland Brigade Buries its Dead by Lieut -Col W T Reay (Algy Pug)
Australia's Call to Arms by John B. O'Hara (Algy Pug)
Good News by Garnet Walch (Algy Pug)
Free Trade v Protection by Garnet Walch (Algy Pug)
The Lion's Cubs by Garnet Walch (Algy Pug)
The Little Duchess by Ethel Turner (Algy Pug)
Australia's Springtime by W.L.Lumley (Algy Pug)
The Man that saved the Match by David McKee Wright (Algy Pug)
Ode for Commonwealth Day, 1st January, 1901 by George Essex Evans (Algy Pug)
A Desperate Assault by Donald MacDonald (Algy Pug)
The Game of Life by John Godfrey Saxe (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
Prejudice by Charlotte Perkins Stetson (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
The Poor and the Rich by James Russell Lowell (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
The Engineer's Story from the Denver Post (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
Seeing's not Believing by Thomas Haynes Bayley (Newgatenovelist)
Caudle has been made a Mason by Douglas Jerrold (Newgatenovelist)
Mrs Caudle's Lecture by Douglas Jerrold (Newgatenovelist)
Jim Bludso by Colonel John Hay (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
How Uncle Mose Counted the Eggs by anonymous (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
The Negro Baby's Funeral by Will Carleton (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
Der Shpider und der Fly by Charles Follen Adams (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
Lariat Bill by G W H (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
The Elf Child; or, Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene by Matthew Gregory Lewis (Newgatenovelist)
An All-around Intellectual Man by Thomas Masson (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
Her Ideal by Kate Masterson (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
The Happy Farmer by Mortimer Crane Brown (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
The Son of a Soldier by Owen Oliver (Algy Pug)
The Mile by David McKee Wright (Algy Pug)
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