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  2. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.

    Mistress: "What did you tell those ladies who have just called?" Bridget: "Oi told them that you was not in, mum." ...

    Article : 38 words
  3. A FRESH AIR FUND OUTING.

    One evening last summer on a farm a little slum child was enjoying his first glimpse of pastoral life. The setting sun gilded the crass and ...

    Article : 84 words
  4. SURE OF IT

    "And now that you have satisfied the jury about your movements on, the fifteenth and twenty-first," said counsel to defendant, "what were ...

    Article : 40 words
  5. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    In the beginning, the woman sits down and waits for a husband; in the and, she sits up and waits for him. Guide: "We've climbed about 4000 feet, ...

    Article : 724 words
  6. RURAL LOVE MAKING

    "Betsy," he whispered, as they sat together on the fence surrounding Mrs. Filligan's pigsty, "'ow beautiful you be! Jos' think of it. ...

    Article : 73 words
  7. MOST AGGRAVATING

    "Did you tell her father just what you thought of him?" "Yes, I did, confound him!" "What did he say?" ...

    Article : 104 words
  8. FIRST AID

    The Doctor: "Mrs. Briggs has sent for me to go and see her boy, and I must go at once." His Wife: "What is the matter ...

    Article : 62 words
  9. IF THE SUN SHONE AT NIGHT.

    When the carpenters began work on the house, in which "Square" Johnson's married daughter was to live, they were much tried by the ...

    Article : 259 words
  10. HER NEMESIS

    A woman who felt ill went to a doctor. "I don't know what on earth is the matter with me," she told him: ...

    Article : 91 words
  11. PLEASE DO IT AGAIN

    An African monarch was being shown round some engineering works, when the manager's clothes were caught in the machinery, and ...

    Article : 81 words
  12. MUSIC BOX IN THE BATHROOM

    A" man met n friend and said, "I say, old chappy! I've got an awfully good ideah, don't cher know. I'm having a music-bawx ...

    Article : 130 words
  13. A CHEVALIER STORY

    Mr. Albert Chevalier tells a rather amusing experience he once had during an Irish tour. "1 was playing," he says, "in a small ...

    Article : 139 words
  14. BEFORE OR AFTER

    They were talking about Turkey in the drawing-room. "The most dreadful thing about the country, to my mind," said ...

    Article : 74 words
  15. TROUBLE IN VAIN

    A benevolent-looking old gentleman was walking along the street when he came upon an irate parent lecturing his off spring. ...

    Article : 131 words
  16. COULD NOT CHEAT HIM.

    "It's funny how afraid rich men are of being cheated," reflected Mr. Bates, "'specially when they get out in the country. Now, last fall one of ...

    Article : 288 words
  17. HAD NO USE FOR THEM

    A society hostess once gave what she culled a "White Elephant All the ladies who were invited were asked by bring with ...

    Article : 90 words
  18. AT AN EVENING PARTY

    If any man ever admired his wife, that man was Howler. And when the Fitzboodles asked Mrs. Howler to get up and sing. "There is a ...

    Article : 152 words
  19. HE GAVE THEN AWAY

    An American girl whose father was a large boot and shoe manufacturer, and who advertised goods very extensively, once came to ...

    Article : 106 words
  20. HARMLESS

    A district visitor was paying calls on the folk, in a row of cottages, and was shocked by the conduct of a shabbily-dressed old ...

    Article : 146 words
  21. AN AXE TO GRIND.

    When I was a little boy, says Benjamin Franklin, I remember, one cold winter morning I was accosted by a smiling man with an axe on his ...

    Article : 273 words
  22. SEEMED REPENTANT

    A young man was sitting in a barber's shop looking at a magazine, when an old farmer, with little knowledge or appreciation of ...

    Article : 149 words
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