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  2. Champagne in Jugs: Raid on a London Club.

    GAY and sprightly scenes at Ciro's Club and a dramatic raid by the police on its mpagne ...

    Article : 1,669 words
  3. "A SOURCE OF INNOCENT MERRIMENT."

    A LITTLE girl had been to church for the first time, and on her return home her mother asked her if she liked it. "Yes," said the little girl, "but there is one ...

    Article : 73 words
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    Father: "How do you know this is a lost ball?" Son: "Because I saw the man and his caddie looking for it." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 25 words
  5. A GENTLE HINT.

    NORAH, the new cook, poked her head in at the dining-room door, and asked: "Plaze, ma'am, an' how will I be knowin' whin the puddin is cooked? ...

    Article : 86 words
  6. COMPLIMENTS.

    "DOES your wife ever pay you any compliments?" asked Frederick Jimson of his friend Benderley. "Never," replied Benderley. ...

    Article : 74 words
  7. WRONG QUARRY.

    WITH a wild sweep the wind tore around a corner and removed the hat from the head of a respectable and near-sighted citizen who chanced to be passing. ...

    Article : 122 words
  8. ACQUIRED BRAVERY.

    WILLIS: "You think these summer military camps tend to make a man a braver fighter?" Gillis: "Yes. After I returned from the first ...

    Article : 56 words
  9. NO MORE FRENCH FOR HIM.

    CUSTOMER (looking in mirror): "Great scissors, barber! you've gone and cleared every blessed hair off my head." Barber: "Isn't that what you told me to ...

    Article : 64 words
  10. COALS TO NEWCASTLE.

    THE woman of the house answered the knock at the door of the tumble-down home. "How do you do?" said the visitor. "I am Miss Smith, the school nurse, and I have come ...

    Article : 69 words
  11. A BOMBSHELL.

    SHE said she wanted a ticket to Liverpool and the pale-faced booking-clerk, who had not answered "the call," asked:—"Single?" ...

    Article : 73 words
  12. POOR PATRICK!

    AN old but sturdy Irishman, who had made a reputation as a gang boss, was given a job with a railroad construction company at Port-au-Prinee, Hiayti. One day, when the sun ...

    Article : 86 words
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    "So this is your brother. How much older is he than you?" "We are twins, sir, only he's working in a cheese factory, and I'm not." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 29 words
  14. QUITE RIGHT.

    DURING a particularly nasty duststorm at one of the camps, a recruit ventured to seek shelter in the sacred precincts of the cook's domain. After a time he broke an awkward ...

    Article : 92 words
  15. UNDOUBTEDLY.

    THE following speech was made by an Irish barrister in behalf of his client whose cow had been killed by a train:—"If the train had been run as it should have ...

    Article : 76 words
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