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  3. "SAFETY" AEROPLANES.

    There are people who still think that if the engine of an aeroplane steps, or some other mishap occurs, the machine must drop like a stone ...

    Article : 325 words
  4. WITH THE BROKER'S MAN.

    I learnt very little concerning the doings of the inhabitants of the great city of London until I became a broker's man, and then I ...

    Article : 873 words
  5. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Biddy Malone left the Ould Country full of joy, but imagine her consternation when, on arriving on the other side, she found that she had ...

    Article : 86 words
  6. A BIG AEROPLANE.

    "It was a lovely smash!" said my guide, showing me a photograph of the wreckage of an aeroplane, the body of which looked like a factory ...

    Article : 803 words
  7. GROUND SHEETS.

    If the rifle is a soldier's best friend the ground-sheet is a good second. He puts it to a variety of uses never contemplated by the designer. ...

    Article : 380 words
  8. FRUIT-TREE FIGURES.

    We are all feeling rather depressed about our fruit this year, for the rascally catterpillar has ruined our high hopes. But although our trees ...

    Article : 158 words
  9. DON'T HURRY!

    The telephone bell rang with anxious persistence. The doctor answered the call. "Yes?" he said. ...

    Article : 84 words
  10. ANIMALS AT PLAY.

    Small birds chase each other about in play; but perhaps the conduct of the crane and the trumpeter is the most extraordinary. The latter ...

    Article : 302 words
  11. FULL. UP INSIDE.

    By one of those strange chances one of the lady passengers inside the motor-'bus seemed to be carrying infants, one or two of whom were ...

    Article : 76 words
  12. AT LAST.

    The nice young man, opening up a conversation with the lady of his affections: "I made a perfect fool of myself ...

    Article : 48 words
  13. MESSENGERS OF DEATH.

    The hand grenade is by no means a modern invention; in fact, the French used it as early as 1594, naming it after the pomegranate because ...

    Article : 251 words
  14. SOME PLAYER!

    Two golfers were discussing the merits of a lady member, and the one asked his friend how she played with him the other day. ...

    Article : 48 words
  15. CENTURIES OLD.

    If trees, which are now being felled in wholesale fashion, could speak, what stories certain of them could tell. An ancient oak in the beautiful ...

    Article : 261 words
  16. A SCANTY MEAL.

    In a certain hospital the patients were very badly fed, and looked forward to an inspection, when they could lodge a complaint. ...

    Article : 78 words
  17. IF ALL WERE SOCIALISTS.

    The man who grumbles at his share of the good things of life and thinks how much luckier he would be if they were only equally divided would ...

    Article : 467 words
  18. THE TRUTH.

    Her Brother (wonderingly): "I thought you were a great deal bigger than you are." The Hopeful One: "What gave you ...

    Article : 38 words
  19. THE OLD TALE.

    Old Blore grew reminiscent. "You may not believe me," he rumbled on, "but many's the good story I've told under that old tree ...

    Article : 327 words
  20. BAD BOYS BUT NOTED MEN.

    Because a boy has had a bad school record, there is no reason to suppose he is beyond hope. What, for instance, was the early ...

    Article : 339 words
  21. IMPROVING ON NATURE.

    The idea that a wooden leg or a false hand can be clapped on to a wounded man and the case dismissed with a blessing is a thing of the ...

    Article : 325 words
  22. UNCLE SAM'S "MAGIC" FLEET.

    Uncle Sam's war-hustling has made the world's eyes open wide; but he has eclipsed even his own records in his amazing effort to build a fleet of ...

    Article : 274 words
  23. THE QUEEN OF BATTLE.

    "Napoleon called the infantry the Queen of Battle. The Germans have degraded it to the mere handmaiden of the guns." This remark, made to ...

    Article : 831 words
  24. THE FIRST FEKE.

    Pekingese dogs have a curious history. The first one to be brought to England was given as a present to Queen Victoria in 1861. It had been ...

    Article : 130 words
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