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  2. MASTER OF ALL CHAPTER I

    "What's the matter, Dick? You are very quiet to-night." "Sorry. I was thinking." "No, not really! No wonder you ...

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  3. WIT AND HUMOR.

    "I'm a great eater of fish." "You are! I thought fish was brain food." "Once I was collared on leaving a ...

    Article : 94 words
  4. THE FALL OF FOUR GREAT HEROES.

    History records that Alexander the Great, who was the pupil of Aristotle at fourteen, and who reigned over the Macedonians at sixteen, while his ...

    Article : 272 words
  5. AEROPLANES IN WAR.

    Until several years ago the armies of the world relied solely upon their cavalry for scouts, and the mounted man well ahead of the main body ...

    Article : 506 words
  6. Addled.

    "Waiter, this egg is spoiled." "Don't wonder, sir. Its high cost has probably turned its head, sir." ...

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  7. The Reason Why.

    Jones: How did you come to have such an extraordinarily pretty nursegirl, my dear? Mrs. Jones: Because I want our ...

    Article : 35 words
  8. On the Road.

    Miss Hogaboom: And in what profession is your brothe Lord Hamercy? Lord Hamercy: Oh, when Algernon ...

    Article : 48 words
  9. Fair Words or Nothing.

    "George," said the wife to her generally unappreciative husband, "howdo you like my new hat?" "Well, my dear," said George, with ...

    Article : 53 words
  10. BRIDAL NAPERIES.

    We frequently see included in lists of wedding presents the item, "Houselinen from the mother of the bride," and few people realise what that ...

    Article : 266 words
  11. Not For Him.

    "What kind of meat have you this morning?" asked the husband of the butcher. "The best steak we have ever had, ...

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  12. Not Strange At All.

    Mrs. Wheeler's family and the new baby were being freely discussed by their next-door neighbor. "Isn't it strange they didn't name ...

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  13. One of Them.

    A certain millionaire did not approve of foreign missions. One Sunday at church, when the collection was being taken up for these ...

    Article : 69 words
  14. AN EXCITING ADVENTURE ON THE SIMPLON.

    I had once a very narrow squeak when crossing the Simplon, in the depth of winter, from Italy, says J. E. P. Muddock, in "Pages from an ...

    Article : 323 words
  15. CRIMINALS' RUSES.

    You would hardly think it possible for a man wanted for the crime of murder to dwell under the very noses of the police who were searching for ...

    Article : 343 words
  16. He Could Trust Her.

    Mrs. Capron saw old Uncle Timothy starting away on a fishing expedition, and knowing how hard his wife worked, thought it good time to ...

    Article : 81 words
  17. CHAPTER II.

    But Sydney felt no need of the help of God or man. On the contrary, she felt that God and man had offered her gifts with ...

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  18. So Much Easier.

    Some time ago a tramp tapped on the back door of a suburban home and asked for something to eat. The good housewife responded that she ...

    Article : 133 words
  19. The Lesser of Two Evils.

    "I think I must have made a bad mistake last Sunday," mused the fellow who seldom goes to church. "You see, I got the magazine from ...

    Article : 148 words
  20. THE ORIGINAL OF JOHN GILPIN.

    The ballad of John Gilpin, which was written by Cowper at the end of December, 1782, was the outcome of a story being related to the poet by ...

    Article : 271 words
  21. Silence is Golden.

    This delightful little story is being told of a certain well-known regiment. It concerns an officer who is something more than merely disliked by ...

    Article : 177 words
  22. Doctor Versus Lawyer.

    "Not long ago," says a lawyer, "I attended a trial, during the course of which there was summoned as witness a youthful physician. ...

    Article : 123 words
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