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  2. THE MOST AMUSING THING EVER HEARD, OR SEEN, OR READ, OR DREAMT!

    Well, the "Arrow" wants it. Write it cut or cut it out, but take care that any clipping is-pasted or gummed to paper—not pinned—otherwise contributors' ...

    Article : 296 words
  3. ONE CURE.

    A little girl came to her mother near lunch-time with a stomach ache. "Perhaps your stomach aches," her mother said, "because it's empty?" Well, ...

    Article : 111 words
  4. A HOUSEHOLD JOKE.

    He: "My views on bringing up a family —." She : "Never mind your views. I'll bring up the family, you bring up the coal."—B. M. KING, 12 Jonn-st., Camperdown. ...

    Article : 38 words
  5. TWO PARROTS.

    A lady (perhaps a dean's wife) kept two parrots, one in the parlor and the other in the kitchen. The former she had taught to say the responses while she ...

    Article : 116 words
  6. SAVED HIM FROM IT.

    Tramp (to old lady, whom he had stopped on the road): "Oh, madam, could you give me a few coppers? I am starving." ...

    Article : 88 words
  7. THE REASON.

    "How is it you came home from your party so early last night, Susan? [?] you enjoy yourself?" "Yes, madam; but the young man as ...

    Article : 96 words
  8. WHERE THE LANGUAGE FAILS.

    After hearing evidence in an assault case between man and wife, in which the wife had had a deal of provocation, the magistrate, turning to the husband, ...

    Article : 88 words
  9. SAFETY.

    A laborer was taken to the hospital the other day, with severe burns on his head, neck, and arms. He had been looking for a leakage of gas, and had found it ...

    Article : 100 words
  10. KILLED IN THE CRUSH

    "Good morning, Mr. Solomon [??] dead? I see the black band on [?] "Oh, have you not heard? My [?] was killed." ...

    Article : 106 words
  11. AN AMERICAN YARN.

    An old farmer walked into a grocer's shop and showed the shopman an egg about six inches long, which he said was laid by one of his oldest hens. ...

    Article : 168 words
  12. TOO LATE.

    A lady, going up the a[?]e of a fashionable church the other Sunday just as the service was about to begin, had the misfortune to tear her dress through ...

    Article : 84 words
  13. MET HIS MATCH.

    A Scotchman went into a Sydney [?] and bought a plug of tobacco, with [?] he received a box of matches, [?] out he met an Irish friend of his who [?] ...

    Article : 96 words
  14. HIS FIRST VISIT TO CHURCH.

    Father: "How do you like church, Bobby?" Bobby: "it's fine, dad; how much did you get?" ...

    Article : 83 words
  15. SO HE IS.

    An acquaintance of a merchant who was engaged in a large way of business recently recommended the latter to engage an attractive young man who, at the time, ...

    Article : 199 words
  16. STICKING TO HIS TEXT.

    Abstemious party (to swiller): "Mr. Smith, I'm sorry to see you in such a bad way. You'd make a respectable member of the community if [?] only ...

    Article : 118 words
  17. HARD TO PLEASE.

    A lady, having asked a Newcastle minor to tea, and noticing at the tea table that the visitor was helping himself very liberally to some special cheese to the ...

    Article : 75 words
  18. HOW DID HE ESCAPE THE FLOOD?

    A young man died in Ireland at the age of 28, and the undertaker, being a bad scholar, did not know what to put down for 28; so, on seeing the school being ...

    Article : 138 words
  19. A FEAST OR A FAMINE.

    A countryman in a restaurant ordered roast lamb, and the waiter bawled to the cook: "One lamb!" "Great Scott, mister!" cried the ...

    Article : 80 words
  20. ENCORE.

    The amateur theatrical performance was on. "You know that part where the man seizes the woman, forces her into the ...

    Article : 103 words
  21. A GOOD BID.

    The auction room was crowded, and the collection of furniture, art, and bric-a-brac being unusually choice, the bidding had been very spirited. ...

    Article : 128 words
  22. TALLEST YARN THIS WEEK.

    Whilst walking across the park in a country town I met an old man, fully 90 years old, crying bitterly. Inquiring of him what was the matter, he sobbingly ...

    Article : 79 words
  23. SHE SLIPPED.

    A young man, a lover, was in the habit of culling on his young lady unexpectedly. One evening he called, and, in his usual hurried manner, sang out: "Are you ...

    Article : 76 words
  24. RATHER THIN.

    We had a boy at our school whose very thin legs had gained for him the sobriquet of "Spindle." The wit of the school one day approached him, and after gazing at ...

    Article : 87 words
  25. CONSTABLE THERE THAT TIME.

    A city firm, on opening a branch [?] in a suburb not many miles from [?] G.P.O., put the following notice in the window:—"This shop will be opened at [?] ...

    Article : 115 words
  26. FRENCH SPOKEN HERE.

    A Frenchman, entering a hotel in the bush, and noticing a card behind the bar bearing the legend, "let on parle Francais," started an animated conversation in ...

    Article : 112 words
  27. AND HE GOT IT.

    An Irishman on one occasion passed a grocer's shop, and, seeing a pile of cheeses on the counter, and noticing the shopman had left the shop, thought it a good ...

    Article : 159 words
  28. SHE WANTED CLEVELAND-STREET.

    A lady carrying a little dog in a Sydney tram wanted to know at every turning weather this was Cleveland-street? She began asking the question soon after the ...

    Article : 108 words
  29. NOT SOMNAMBULISM.

    A groups of drummers (comme[?] travellers) were trading yarns on the subject of hospitality, when one, a little Virginian with a humorous eye and a ...

    Article : 338 words
  30. WANTED ONLY THE BEST.

    Upon the approaching arrival of a circus in a country town, a group of rustics were gazing open-mouthed at this announcement, in letters of green: "Wait! Wait! ...

    Article : 118 words
  31. TO IMPROVE THE VOICE.

    Mrs. Johnson: "Oh, professor, I wonder what I could do to improve my daughter's voice?" Distinguished Professor of Music: "Well, I am sure I do not know, ...

    Article : 51 words
  32. STILL RUNNING.

    The members of a Sydney fishing club were having a "social" and telling fishing stories, "When I was fishing in the Hawkesbury River some years ago," said ...

    Article : 215 words
  33. WOULDN'T STOP.

    At a country town in Victoria two men were endeavoring to get a railway engine into a shed, but being unable to step it, the engine repeatedly ran through. At ...

    Article : 72 words
  34. TOO HUMAN.

    The jackeroo on the station, who hailed from London, was sent to a neighboring "cockle" on a message, and on his way sighted a number of white cockatoos in a ...

    Article : 122 words
  35. NOT AT HOME.

    The most amusing thing I ever heard was during the exhibition of Holman Hunt's famous picture. "The Light of the World," at our Art Gallery. An old lady, ...

    Article : 89 words
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