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  2. A CRUSTY BACHELOR.

    Being a bachelor, crusty and selfish, I am not fond of strange feminine society in a railway carriage. Once I rather burned my fingers by ...

    Article : 238 words
  3. HARVESTING THE HAY CROP.

    The observant man cannot fall to notice the large percentage of hay of poor quality delivered on our city markets. Weeds of various kinds ...

    Article : 325 words
  4. A MAN WHO WAS RANGED.

    It was the custom in the good old days, especially in Ireland, to hang condemned men for half an hour, and then hand them over to their ...

    Article : 243 words
  5. THE PYRAMIDS AND THE SPHINX.

    The first and foremost object of the majority of those who embark on a tour In Egypt is to see those wonders of the ancients, the Pyramids ...

    Article : 1,666 words
  6. THE LAND OF WONDER.

    Over the hills and far away Is the beautiful land of wonder; A land of sunshine, a world of play, A realm of laughter no tears can ...

    Article : 108 words
  7. BURNT NOSES.

    "Your nose looks like a bologna Sausage,” she said with the cruel frankness of a close friend. "Why shouldn’t it?” he answered ...

    Article : 977 words
  8. ON THE NORTH WEST FRONTIER.

    “I'm a man after the pattern of Balaam's ass, as thinks till he is forced to speak!” said Sergeant Banter, drawn at last into the ...

    Article : 708 words
  9. WHAT THE NIGGER THOUGHT.

    Admiral De Horsey is an excellent raconteur, and from out of his fund of anecdote, does not hesitate to bring forth a story against himself, ...

    Article : 198 words
  10. ADVENTURE OF A BABY BOY.

    A person who lived some years in South Africa tells the following story: The infant son of one of the Dutch settlers had strayed away. ...

    Article : 234 words
  11. PRESERVING EGGS.

    Eggs will keep for twelve months in properly-prepared lime water. The lime water is prepared by slacking 1 lb. of freshly-burnt quicklime with ...

    Article : 226 words
  12. A PUGILISTIC CABBY.

    Mr. Grant Allen used to tell of an amusing experience with a London cab-driver. After leaving his publisher's, he hired a cab to drive ...

    Article : 210 words
  13. A GOOD CATCH.

    The latest stock exchange catch is curiously and strangely effective and because of the amusement it affords is worth trying on a friend ...

    Article : 227 words
  14. AN ASPARAGUS BED.

    In planting an asparagus bed the ground should be spaded or ploughed deeply, or to a depth of twelve inches if possible. In turning the soil, ...

    Article : 494 words
  15. A POSTPONED BURGLARY.

    It was one o'clock in the morning. In the deepest shadow of the piazza of the little suburban villa in which our story opens sat two ...

    Article : 427 words
  16. DOCTOR AND PATIENT.

    The late Dr. Cruveilhier, of Paris, was a man of unbounded liberality. One day he heard that a poor young woman, whose husband was a clerk ...

    Article : 325 words
  17. TO SHARPEN THE KNIVES.

    Herr Kubelik von Elman was, as you may guess, a violinist. At least, he played on the violin—that is to say, he scraped a bow against the ...

    Article : 278 words
  18. WHENCE THE WHISTLE.

    Seventy-five years ago the steamwhistle, which is metaphorically shrieking the ears off excursionists on holiday bent, was unknown. ...

    Article : 145 words
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