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  2. OUR AGRICULTURAL LETTER.

    The plan of rabbit extermination by means of an organised “drive” is not exactly a novelty in this colony; but it has never been followed up systematically as is the case in ...

    Article : 1,606 words
  3. TWO GIRLS.

    There is a girl, and I love to think of her and talk of her, who comes in late when there is company, who wears a pretty little air of mingled responsibility and anxiety ...

    Article : 348 words
  4. MULTUM IN PARVO.

    The farms of Coriemullie, in Ross-shire, which extend to upward of 15,000 acres, are to be converted into a deer forest. A short time ago 20 families were living on the land, ...

    Article : 925 words
  5. LADIES' COLUMN.

    It is a sad commentary on American society and American manners (says a writer in an American-paper) that so many bright and otherwise charming young girls are ...

    Article : 1,848 words
  6. SELECTED POETRY.

    I was a teacher some years ago In a little Western town; I was young, and my upper lip Was growing its first soft down. ...

    Article : 322 words
  7. SALVATION ARMY IN INDIA.

    The Hon. James Campbell, in his interesting papers to the Telegraph, writes:—At one of the railway stations I was startled by hearing a familiar Salvation Army tune ...

    Article : 685 words
  8. A YOUNG EMPEROR’S SLAVES.

    I have been told that there are about five thousand male slaves in the Chinese Emperor’s palace, a figure which it is, of course, very difficult to control. The number, ...

    Article : 483 words
  9. WORDS OF WISDOM.

    No man can serve God well on the heights who has not first been through the depths with him. The way to the gospel of privilege is up ...

    Article : 190 words
  10. THE QUEEN’S SCARF.

    The church and congregation of Bethel Chapel sent to the discharged minister a quarter’s salary, amounting to twelve pounds ten shillings. Mr Figlow’s conscience did ...

    Article : 1,913 words
  11. FUN AND FANCY.

    Thin soup, according to an Irish mendicant, is "a quart of water boiled down to a pint, to make it strong.” The word “protest” has been happily ...

    Article : 946 words
  12. TEMPERANCE NOTES.

    “What difference would it make if we hadn't signed the pledge! You don’t suppose we would ever drink?” asked Jasper Medtz, of old Father Goodman, under the ...

    Article : 635 words
  13. HOME INTERESTS

    Mutton Ham to Cure.—The following recipe is from an old cookery book. Cut a hind quarter mutton like a ham; then take 1 oz saltpetre, 1lb of coarse sugar, 1lb ...

    Article : 753 words
  14. BABIES OF THE ANTIPODES AS SEEN FROM A BICYCLE.

    One day when travelling through China on my bicycle tour around the world, I came upon a very novel and interesting sight. It is the first thing of the kind I ever saw or heard ...

    Article : 362 words
  15. AMERICAN ITEMS.

    “Where did you get all those buttons?” asked a lady of a little boy who had a thousand or more on a string. “Why," was the reply, “don’t you know pa is a ...

    Article : 517 words
  16. THE IRISH PEASANTRY.

    A correspondent of the Manchester Guar dian, who is visiting Ireland, writes as to the condition of the Irish peasantry:—“I decline to pity the Irish peasant for his mode ...

    Article : 219 words
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