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  2. His Grace of Pinchbeck

    Sabina was frowning as she watched His Grace of 'Pinchbeck disappear down the track. It was so unlike him to insist upon continuing the fraud of ...

    Article : 4,788 words
  3. YOU WILL NEVER REGRET.

    Keeping your temper under insult or provocation. Telling the truth when a lie would have helped you out of the difficulty. ...

    Article : 204 words
  4. AMUSING INCIDENTS.

    Little Marjorie: "I don't see how they tell a horse's age by his teeth." Little Jack: "That's easy. If he has false teeth he's told." ...

    Article : 1,013 words
  5. In Other Words.

    A visitor surprised a professor at one of our colleges, who was saying to his' baby: "Oh-ny, no-ny, 'e mussy tick his footsy tootsies." ...

    Article : 67 words
  6. That Was Really Nasty.

    They were very fond of each other, and had been engaged; but they had quarrelled, and were too proud to make it up. He called afterwards at her ...

    Article : 118 words
  7. Why They Quarrelled.

    The lady of the house ushered the new cook into the dining-room and began the usual interrogations. "And now, tell me," she asked, "why ...

    Article : 85 words
  8. The Skipping-Rope Cure.

    The boarders were much alarmed one night by what sounded like a man running at a tremendous pace in one of the upper rooms. However, as it ...

    Article : 213 words
  9. Wanted "the Present."

    Charlie had been to school that morning for the first time. When he came home his mother said to him: "Well, Charlie, how did you like ...

    Article : 85 words
  10. His Wonderful Memory.

    A .perspiring man, laden with bundles, bustled into a railway station, and finally stopped, panting and exhausted, beside a small woman ...

    Article : 174 words
  11. Must Have Been Hot.

    An Englishman was complaining while he mopped his brow to an American friend about the heat. The American laughed. ...

    Article : 64 words
  12. Advertising

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    Advertising : 489 words
  13. He Wanted to Lose Her.

    "Now, ladies and gentlemen," said the conjurer, with a wave of the hand, "this is the magic cabinet; I invite any lady in the audience to ...

    Article : 95 words
  14. Uncalled For.

    Mr. Featherley weighs over two hundred pounds, and is sensitive about it. He was calling on a friend the other evening, when she said, naively: "Oh, ...

    Article : 100 words
  15. Equal to the Occasion.

    "Before we were married," said the young wife, "you used to bring me flowers every day." Now you never think of even buying me a bunch of ...

    Article : 65 words
  16. Uncalled For.

    "Women are more far-seeing than men."—Member of the Women's National League: Man falls in love with some fair maid, ...

    Article : 78 words
  17. The Same Old Story.

    A Cambridge undergraduate contrary, to. regulations, was entertaining his sister, when they heard someone on the stairs. ...

    Article : 106 words
  18. TROUBLES OF A FAT WOMAN.

    A fat woman writes:—"I am fat, uncomfortable. unwieldly, look older than my years; I feel miserable, and suffer from all manner of corpulency complaints. ...

    Article : 291 words
  19. How He Lost Them.

    A Channel steamer carried a passenger who retired at nightfall, having imbibed more strong beverage than suited his constitution. His mental ...

    Article : 151 words
  20. Taking It Literally.

    Tommy came across a word in his school book the other day the meaning of which he could not guess, and he resolved to question his father: on the ...

    Article : 87 words
  21. We Don't Believe It!

    A man with a keen sense of humor of American hustle is responsible for the following:— "The best time achieved for ...

    Article : 138 words
  22. APPLY THIS TO RESTORE NATURAL COLOR IF HAIR IS GREY.

    Buy 1½ oz. Rejuveni Compound, to which add 1 oz. Bay Rum. Shake well together. then add enough water to make 10 oz (1½ pint) Simple is not it? Yes and it's ...

    Article : 232 words
  23. He Was Cheating.

    A small girl with her mother was watching two-men at work in the hall of a public building. They were kneeling in the middle of the vast expanse ...

    Article : 117 words
  24. Didn't Like the Job.

    Giles Singleton had worked for a farmer nine years, and was apparently contented until his employer added poultry-keeping to his list of ...

    Article : 110 words
  25. Sandy's Bargain.

    A Scottish farmer, who for twenty years had supplied a neighbor with a weekly consignment of a dozen eggs, discovered one week that thirteen had ...

    Article : 177 words
  26. Smart Business.

    Biggs: "I have lust seen Pullew, the dentist in a big touring auto. I thought he'd gone bankrupt?" Wiggs: "He was on the verge of it. ...

    Article : 54 words
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