2cc4bde2ff4e, 2: One
year after leaving her home in wayward love, her father writes her of
her mother's death and forgives her, but she refuses to return.

OLD MAN'S TROUBLE, 4aa5b4cc5b and 4aa5b4cc5b, 3: A meditation upon the
sadness of old age and a warning to the young against their own days of
poverty and senile helplessness.

IN THE BAGGAGE-COACH AHEAD, iii, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e4g3h4i3h and 4aabb, 2:
A crying child brings to its sad-eyed father remonstrances from sleepy
passengers until they are told that the dead mother is in the
baggage-coach ahead.

[SWEET MEMORY OF DEAR MOTHER], 3abcbdefe and 3abcbdefe, 3: A child's
loving reminiscence.

LITTLE MAUDIA, 4abcb, 6: A dying girl's farewell to her mother.

OLD CHURCH-YARD, 4abcb, 7: A forlorn orphan's meditation upon her
mother's grave.

XV.

_The songs of this group, in lieu of a more accurate name, may be called
moralities, since they contain a moral incident or reflection._

[THE BLACK SHEEP], 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e and 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e, 6: Jack and
Tom prevail upon their rich and aged father to send away their brother
Fred as a "black sheep." Later, just as these two Pharisees are about to
send the old man to the poorhouse, Fred reappears and saves him from
this disgrace.

[NOTHING TO BE MADE BY ROVING], 3abcb, 2: Dissipation brings discontent
at last.

TWO DRUMMERS, 6aabbccdd and 6aabb, 2: In a "grand hotel" they speak
slightingly to a pretty waitress. She rebukes them, making appeal to
their regard for their mothers. They apologize to her and one of them
marries her.

THE DRUNKARD'S DREAM, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 9: A vision of his dead wife and
children turns him from strong drink forever after.

FATHER, DEAR FATHER, COME HOME WITH ME NOW, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e and
3a3b4c3b, 3: The little daughter begs her father to come home from the
grog-shop before her little brother dies. The clock tolls twelve, one,
two, three--and when finally she leads him home, the boy is dead.

A DRIFTER RESCUED, 4abcb, 10: The turbulent journey of a ship-wrecked
soul: near the brink of destruction the reckless man finds a redeemer in
the Savior.

THE WANDERING BOY, 4aabb and 4abcc, 4: A mother's wail for her wayward
son: she points out the vacant chair, cradle, and shoes of his innocent
babyhood.

XVI.

_This group contains sequence-songs, or number-songs, like the popular
German Zaehllieder, though not all are necessarily sung, but rather are
spoken. The first one below would see