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  2. GETTING UP ON COLD MORNINGS.

    SOME people say that it is a very easy thing to get up on a cold morning. You have only, they tell you, to take the resolution, and the thing is done. This may ...

    Article : 1,220 words
  3. NOTIONS OF THE ABSURD.

    When a man attempts to bolt his door with a boiled carrot. When a man is so drunk that he sees every house dancing round him, and watts on the wet ...

    Article : 78 words
  4. SELECT VARIETIES.

    In order to look into any person's temper, I generally make my first observations upon his laugh, whether he is easily moved, and what are the passages whieh throw him into that ...

    Article : 1,637 words
  5. THE OLD RIFLEMAN'S CORNER.

    ALL my comrades, I hear, or at least the greater part of them, are busy in making tho new projectile, one of whom was about to try it by inverting it in the barrel with the point ...

    Article : 1,993 words
  6. FACETIE.

    An Irish Ruse.—I engaged a chaise at Galway, to conduct me some few miles into the country, and had not proceeded far when it pulled up at the foot of a hill, and, the driver ...

    Article : 969 words
  7. BUNYIP.

    After all the disquisitions upon the probible existence of the apochryphal animal,' the problem has been at length solved; still as some knowledge of the carly days and subsequent ...

    Article : 971 words
  8. MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

    A Miser.—A female, aged 72, lately died in London from voluntary starvation, induced by a miserly anxiety to save money, although she had already £600 in the Bank of England. A. ...

    Article : 382 words
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