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  2. Flotsam and Jetsam

    Alone I lay and pondered, pondered drearily, While Night's deep shadows swathed the restless main, And phantoms of the darkness wandered w[?]ly, ...

    Article : 250 words
  3. Jamie Settled Him.

    A minister exhorting his hearers one Sunday on being industrious, and taking the bee as a sample of industry, rather tickled "Fool Jamie's" ideas, who, when the ...

    Article : 68 words
  4. Circumstances Alter Cases.

    Anxious Daughter: "Mother, did papa have his salary increased when he was married ?" Mother: "No, my child." ...

    Article : 106 words
  5. Queer Human Nature.

    "The recent exposure of the swindling speculative concerns in Wall-street has shown how remarkably unsuspecting and gullible the average man and woman with. ...

    Article : 367 words
  6. The Billing Passion.

    During a heavy storm in the Atlantic a liner was wrecked in mid-ocean. Among the passengers saved was an old German Jew, and he was picked up by some of the ...

    Article : 147 words
  7. A Coat That Didn't Fit.

    When Poole, the English tailor, was an old man he was at Brighton on a vacation, and one afternoon went out to walk upon the pier. A young man who was on the ...

    Article : 151 words
  8. A Determined Old Woman.

    I remember one day when we reached a Junction station, said an engine-driver in conversation the other day, a woman came up to me and asked me to detain the train ...

    Article : 428 words
  9. He Was Inside.

    The young noble bowed his head and did not reply to the question of the princess. A royal light of jealousy and anger burned in her eyes. She made a sign with her ...

    Article : 143 words
  10. The Honest Farmer Explains.

    "It's dreadfully queer," said the housewife, "that the. potatoes you bring should be so much bigger on the top of the basket than they are at the bottom." ...

    Article : 71 words
  11. Facts and Fancies.

    A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.—HUDIBRAN. If your pill is bitter, the quicker you swallow it the better. ...

    Article : 729 words
  12. Dutiful Sons-in-law.

    "Where will Frau Meyer go now that both her daughters are married ? To her son-in-law's house in Frankfurt, or to that of her other son-in-law in Stuttgart?" ...

    Article : 72 words
  13. Glasgow Propriety.

    In a block of houses recently built in a village not far from Glasgow it was found impossible to let houses of two rooms except to people who meant to take lodgers, ...

    Article : 227 words
  14. Reading the Signals.

    The captain of one of the big schooners that carry ice from the Kennebec to Washington, U.S.A., tells a story of an Irishman he shipped. Pat wanted to get from ...

    Article : 189 words
  15. London Post Office Stories.

    An application was received by a former Postmaster-General of England, Lord Wolverton, from three trustees of a friendly society. From certain erasures in the ...

    Article : 441 words
  16. Theory and Practice.

    It all happened on the occasion of the family reunion. It was held by the side of a running stream where swings, tables, and a platform had been provided for Just such ...

    Article : 371 words
  17. Won by Tears.

    "Had it been a man." snorted the large and athletic doctor. "I should have known what to do. But woman is a conundrum in herself, and in a majority of her ...

    Article : 335 words
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