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  2. THE OLD SETTLE.

    Mrs. Oakley was not of a jealous nature. It does not behave a minister's wife to be jealous but the dinner was already on the table, and it was undoubtedly a relief when her ...

    Article : 1,183 words
  3. "SAFE" STORIES.

    An English safe via despatched to a seaport town in Brazil. It had been bought by a merchant of that place but as there were no men there who understood the transportation of so ...

    Article : 795 words
  4. AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SCOUNDREL.

    John Richardson was a native of Now York, where, at the age of fourteen years, he entered on board a vessel commanded by his uncle. After a single voyage bo took a dislike to the ...

    Article : 1,558 words
  5. FASHION AND BLACKGUARDISM.

    The mixed throng who daily take their airings in Hyde Park, walking, riding, driving, or sitting under the shade of leafy trees, criticising the varied crowd who pass them, may ...

    Article : 739 words
  6. FOR RUBE'S SAKE.

    Working hours were over in the Great White Canyon. Mary Vormer pulled down the little window of the post-office of which she was mistress, swept the contents of the narrow counter ...

    Article : 1,861 words
  7. FISHING.

    " Men are just like fish," observed the tall girl in grey, " and I don't wonder that Mr. Darwin thinks they are descended from them." " I think Mr. Darwin only spoke of apes ...

    Article : 648 words
  8. A WEIRD CRIME.

    This is the story of how a young Parisian girl hundered her lover. in one of the poorer quarters of Paris, Cite Jeanue d Arc, lived a pensioned soldier, George Remond, 47 years old ...

    Article : 636 words
  9. A DELIBERATING JUDGE.

    In "The Lawyer in History, Literature, and Humour " the writer of the chapter on "Law and Laughter " relates some amusing stories illustrative of judicial playfulness. A ...

    Article : 277 words
  10. A PERFUMED DANDY.

    Sitting in the piazza of the Cataract House, at Niagara Falls, was a young, foppish-looking gentleman his garments very highly scented with a mingled odour of Cologne and musk. ...

    Article : 166 words
  11. SIKES'S ESCAPE.

    A housebreaker one night was being chased across some fields in the South of England, when be unexpectedly found himself at the top of a railway cutting. Just below was standing ...

    Article : 168 words
  12. TOO PLAYFUL.

    Young Algy Vervain bad gone to call on Miss Edyth St. Clare and had found her out, but her mother was at home, and Algy was asked to wait, as Miss Edyth was expected at any ...

    Article : 332 words
  13. A WESTERN STORY.

    It was a very small Western cown, and the only train out of it that night left at two o'clock. The travelling man had impressed upon the night porter of the hotel the ...

    Article : 306 words
  14. BY RAIL IN RUSSIA.

    With the single exception of the mail the in between St. Petersburg mid Moscow, which, by the way, only carries first-class passengers, the average rate of travelling is something under ...

    Article : 321 words
  15. THE SEDAN CHAIR.

    The " Early Reminiscences " of Sir Daniel Lysons contain the following memory of Bath:- I usually spent any holidays at home, but one year I was fortunate enough to be taken to Bath. ...

    Article : 254 words
  16. AN OFFICER'S ANSWER.

    During Napoleon's campaign in Russian, a young officer was very successful in defeating, with a handful of men, a large body of Cossacks, who had been skirmishing along the line ...

    Article : 114 words
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