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  2. LOVE IN THE WILDS

    In the cabin, unconscious of the discussion that his actions had given rise to, Humphrey Bellairs was talking things over with Dolly Thurlow. ...

    Article : 3,866 words
  3. MASTER OF MANY TRADES

    In Mr. Wells's romance, "The First Men in the Moon," the adventurers from our planet found that the inhabitants had specialised to such a degree ...

    Article : 477 words
  4. PLANTS THAT FRIGHTEN BIRDS

    Scarecrows have often formed resting-places for innumerable sparrows and bullfinches who have been searching the garden for seeds and fruit. And ...

    Article : 358 words
  5. ACHES IN THE WRONG PLACE.

    While the hands and arms seem to be doing most in a game of tennis, it is in the legs that fatigue is first felt. This sort of thing holds good in ...

    Article : 461 words
  6. A BAD EGG.

    Travellers in Australia were breakfasting at an inn in the backwoods, and there was exactly one egg apiece. One old traveller reached for an egg, ...

    Article : 128 words
  7. WELL WORTH HIS WAGES

    The old lady was rich, but mean. She didn't keep a cat because its paws might wear out the carpet. She had to have servants, but she ...

    Article : 102 words
  8. ASKING TO BE REFUSED.

    Young Hilton made a bet that he would pop the question to the haughty Miss Do Vere and get "Yes" as his answer. ...

    Article : 67 words
  9. AN EARLY START.

    When a young man was married during the Whitsuntide holidays, there was a regular hall of rice, confetti, and old shoes, for good luck, as he got into ...

    Article : 368 words
  10. WHAT THE HORSE MIGHT DO.

    A horse hirer, who always drives a hard bargain, tells a story of his profession. One day a man approached, and requested to have a horse on hire ...

    Article : 159 words
  11. THE BOSS WAS BUSY.

    A certain firm advertised for a girl clerk, and the following morning there were hundreds of applicants. So numerous were they that at last the chief ...

    Article : 75 words
  12. HAPPY HAMLET.

    A man who was stranded for the evening in a Lancashire manufacturing town went in search of amusement, only to discover that the music hall ...

    Article : 102 words
  13. FRA' THE NORTH

    A Scotsman visited London for the first time to "speer roond," as he termed it. On his return to his native village ...

    Article : 89 words
  14. THEY'RE MARRIED NOW.

    A bashful young man was courting a girl, but he was so backward in his love-making that she began to grow impatient. ...

    Article : 65 words
  15. THAT WAS ALL

    Fred was a long-winded individual. He always insisted on giving anyone and everyone his views at great length, regardless of whether or not he had ...

    Article : 79 words
  16. AN AWKWARD FIX.

    Two young men met in the street. Said the first: "Hullo, Jones, you're looking down in the mouth." ...

    Article : 93 words
  17. THE HUMAN ECHO.

    The tourists, having lunched at the hotel, climbed to the top of the mountain. There they saw a hale old man sitting on a rock, a telescope a yard ...

    Article : 547 words
  18. ONLY ONE LEFT.

    The car had broken down, and the pair of legs protruding from underneath seemed to indicate that repairs were in progress. ...

    Article : 424 words
  19. MORE USEFUL.

    A little north country lad, who shines shoes for a living, is a regular attendant at a mission Sunday school. He was keenly disappointed at ...

    Article : 380 words
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