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  2. Spray.

    [?] were a party of "commercials," and the game they were playing was "nap." One of them had cried "There!" and was followed by his neighbour shouting ...

    Article : 88 words
  3. Suspicious

    " The funniest experience I ever had," said the old magician, who was in a reminiscent mood, " happened a good many years ago, while I was malting a tour of the far ...

    Article : 364 words
  4. Short Story.

    The new American Consul and his wife had been at Kobe about six months—long enough to outgrow the first sense of uncanny strangeness with which ...

    Article : 2,659 words
  5. A HASTY JUDGMENT.

    THE in a nest skunk that it was ever my lot to know and to ...

    Article : 2,180 words
  6. Of the Two.

    The first meeting between Sir John Millais and Mrs. Jopling, the well-known painter, occurred at a private view of the Old. Masters at Burlington House. ...

    Article : 84 words
  7. For Those About to Marry.

    The wedding Invitation which ended with tho words, " No cards, no cake, no fuss," has become historic. A like immortality may be in store for an invitation said to ...

    Article : 79 words
  8. Newest Way or Swindling.

    A story that comes from a private detective agency now engaged on a swindling case has caused many a good laugh at the expense of the too trusting hotel ...

    Article : 553 words
  9. [?]acking, of Course.

    A party wore driving down a city street one day, and noticed au advertisement: "Day and Martin's B—" (meaning of course blacking). On seeing this the wit ...

    Article : 48 words
  10. "Do You Really Think So ?"

    It was a great thing for an undergraduate to be taken for a walk by the late Professor Jowett, and some of the young men were quite overpowered by the honour. ...

    Article : 231 words
  11. flow It Hurt.

    "Why are you weeping ?" asked the loving husband. "When little Harry and went for a ride on a "bus to-day," she ebbed, "the ...

    Article : 102 words
  12. The Motor-car.

    The number of motor-cars that are now to bo seen dally in Hyde Park is remarkable. The better kind are still very, expensive, and cost from £500 to £1000. In ...

    Article : 101 words
  13. Thoroughly Qualified.

    [?] was a very ignorant man—could neither read nor write. Nevertheless he got an appointment as justice of the peace. When the papers came by post he did not ...

    Article : 126 words
  14. That Explained It.

    On returning from the country the other Sunday evening a certain local preacher complained that the mare he was driving had jibbed on the road and had caused him ...

    Article : 189 words
  15. Domestic Hints.

    The white of an egg beaten up will be found to make a good leather varnish. A paint brush is convenient for putting the blacking on a stove before polishing. ...

    Article : 693 words
  16. The Yillain's Wooing.

    He dropped on one knee and took lier hand. "Say you will be mine!" he exclaimed passionately. ...

    Article : 112 words
  17. A Story of Lord Kitchener.

    A man who knows Kitchener well was telling me the other night some characteristic stories of the hero of Khartoum. During the Soudan campaign he called an office to ...

    Article : 232 words
  18. Cheery as Eyer.

    "What shall you do when you get fit again?" said a Tommy who had all the fingers of his right hand taken off, in Netley, recently to another one lying, ...

    Article : 98 words
  19. A True Goose Story.

    Some queer stories are in circulation about the effects of intoxicants on animals, but here is one of the queerest. A farmer's wife, finding that some cherry wine which ...

    Article : 301 words
  20. Tricky Tommy.

    Tommy had had pneumonia, so had been for some time in hospital, where they had treated him so well that he was much averse to the prospect of being discharged as ...

    Article : 129 words
  21. A Corner-stone Laying.

    At a recent corner-stone laying in a provincial town the stone was swinging in the grasp of a powerful crane above the hole left for it to fit in. Down in the hole an ...

    Article : 185 words
  22. The Duke's Choice.

    After the battle of Chillian wallah in 1819, in which the British forces had been defeated great outcry says "Little Folks," arose against Lord Gough the British ...

    Article : 141 words
  23. Once in a While.

    Once in a while the sun shines out. And the arching skies are a perfect blue; Once in a while mid clouds of doubt, Faith's fairest stars come peeping through ...

    Article : 175 words
  24. As He Found It.

    A man who was for a short time a school teacher in a West American district, which was devastated by family tends tells some stoples of that region. ...

    Article : 220 words
  25. The Landlady Scored

    " You have a very nice-looking landlady," said Anson to bis friend Benson, who lived in " diggings," "but she looks a sharper," he added in a whisper. ...

    Article : 195 words
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