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  2. Flotsam and Jetsam

    "I painted a winter scene the other day that was so true to Nature that the thermometer in my studio fell twenty degrees." "Humph! that's nothing. I painted a ...

    Article : 53 words
  3. An Apparition.

    This is a true English ghost story of an unconventional kind. "A young lady arrived late at night on a visit to a friend. She awoke in the darkness to find a white ...

    Article : 166 words
  4. Taking It Seriously.

    An amusing story comes from the West of England. A lady, whose establishment is very small, invited the Bishop of Gloucester to dinner recently. She engaged, for ...

    Article : 148 words
  5. Hooking a Bulldog.

    This angling story is said to be different from all other angling stories in the respect that it is true. Some gentlemen were out salmon fishing, but they had no luck ...

    Article : 285 words
  6. A Babbling Brook.

    "Your wife has such a liquid voice," said Mr. Fosdick to Mr. Tiff. "Yes, that's a pretty good name for it," replied Mr. Tiff. ...

    Article : 44 words
  7. The Bull Couldn't Read.

    Here is a comical adventure that some members of an English ordnance survey met with while touring in the south of Scotland. In the prosecution of their ...

    Article : 199 words
  8. A Satisfactory Proof.

    In County Sligo, among the hills, there is a small lake renowned in that region for its fabulous depth. A professor happened to be in that part of Ireland last ...

    Article : 221 words
  9. Catching a Tartar.

    Theodore Hook was a tall, powerful man. A colonel, taking amiss some allusion to himself in the "John Bull," went to Fleetstreet with a horsewhip under his arm. ...

    Article : 101 words
  10. Facts and Fancies.

    A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.—HUDIBRAS When you are sad, sing, and then others will be sad with you. ...

    Article : 808 words
  11. Bulls—Not from Ireland.

    The following series of extracts from speeches made by Camberwell Vestrymen, as given in the South London Mail, can surely claim to be unique:— ...

    Article : 126 words
  12. A Pair of Sharpers.

    At a fair held in a small town a gentleman observed a gipsy and a Jew haggling over the sale of a horse. Full of curiosity to know how two such shrewd characters ...

    Article : 223 words
  13. He Had His Revenge.

    "When a young and callow freshman, I used to try all kinds of fool experiments," laughed the usually staid professor. "The inspiration of these outbreaks of lunacy ...

    Article : 332 words
  14. The Bass Viol Puzzled Him.

    The company of one of the opera houses, at the close of a London season, had arrived at Liverpool to embark for a continental tour. The musical instruments ...

    Article : 155 words
  15. He Had a Grievance.

    He had fire in his eye and a stout stick in his hand as he brushed aside the small boy who guarded the portal and strode straight to the editor's table. ...

    Article : 424 words
  16. A Great Detective.

    "You have Just been married," he said as he stopped on his way down the railway car and addressed a young man who occupied a seat with a young lady. ...

    Article : 435 words
  17. No Shopping for Him.

    "Look here, Robert, you've been lecturing one about causing the clerks so much trouble when I go shopping, and telling how much better men manage these things," ...

    Article : 300 words
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