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  2. The Place of Dragons CHAPTER XXIX.

    I dashed down to the platform, three steps at a time, followed by my three companions, but ere I gained it the train had begun to move out of ...

    Article : 2,313 words
  3. AGRICULTURE.

    The productive capacity of soils is not indicated by their ability to produce crops for one year or for five years. A soil may be very low in ...

    Article : 617 words
  4. HUMOROUS INCIDENTS. Cool Request.

    "Would you be kind enough to return my photograph?" she wrote. "I gave it to you in a moment of girlish folly, and I have since had occasion ...

    Article : 168 words
  5. Quite Harmless.

    A Londoner, just arrived at a Scottish town, and on his way to a hotel, addressed the porter who led the way:— ...

    Article : 124 words
  6. CHAPTER XXX.

    I lost no time, but quickly hurried around to Arkwright road, strolling past the new, well-kept, red-brick House which, upon its gate, bore the ...

    Article : 2,400 words
  7. Sold the Dog.

    Martin owned a large dog, but his wife was not fond of dogs; in fact, she detested them, and the amount it used to eat annoyed her all the more. ...

    Article : 183 words
  8. FORGETFUL PROFESSORS.

    The world has heard much lately about professors and their "kultur," but not much about their absence of mind. One of them lately knocked at ...

    Article : 486 words
  9. Deserved the Legacy.

    A Turkish story runs that, dying, a pious man bequeathed a fortune to his son, charging him to give £100 to the meanest man he could find and ...

    Article : 216 words
  10. SHORTEST SERMONS ON RECORD.

    Three words comprise the shortest sermon on record, which was preached by the Rev. Dr. William Augustus Muhlenberg, in 1866, at the funeral of ...

    Article : 167 words
  11. A Sticker.

    Donald MacDougall had brought his sweetheart to the "toon" on marketday. He had intended to buy her a present, but as sheep had not fetched ...

    Article : 192 words
  12. WHY DOGS WAG THEIR TAILS.

    Because they are pleased, of course! Quite so, but why should a dog wag its tail as a sign of delight? It appears, according to canine ...

    Article : 351 words
  13. Mean Dodge.

    The inhabitants of a pretty little village in the South of England were on very good terms with themselves when it became known that a certain ...

    Article : 189 words
  14. QUAINT SUPERSTITION.

    One of the oldest superstitions in the Navy is that to change the name of a ship is to court disaster, and it is a curious fact that the present war ...

    Article : 181 words
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