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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 307 words
  3. STORYETTES.

    Irritable Husband (to wife driving a nail): "However do you expect to knock a nail in the wall with a clothes-brush? For goodness' sake use your head, dear!" ...

    Article : 31 words
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    Advertising : 76 words
  5. HIS REGRET.

    Old Gentleman (engaging a new chauffeur): "I suppose I can write to your last employer for your character?" Chauffeur: "I'm sorry to say, sir each ...

    Article : 41 words
  6. TACT.

    Customer: "To what do you owe your extraordinary success as a house-to-house salesman?" Salesman: To the first five words I ...

    Article : 36 words
  7. STILL USEFUL.

    "Father," said little Billy, "when a hen sits on an egg for three weeks and it doesn't hatch, is the egg spoiled?" "As an article of diet, my son, it is ...

    Article : 45 words
  8. LIKE MANY MORE.

    "For ten long years," cried the author, "I have been writing this drama—changing a word here, a line there, working on it till my fingers are cramped and my ...

    Article : 53 words
  9. RESOURCEFUL.

    Forgetful Husband (to friend): I want you to help me. I promised to meet my wife at one o'clock for luncheon, and I can't remember where. Would you ...

    Article : 49 words
  10. NOT A GHOST.

    Depressed One: "I seemed to hear strange sounds: a rattle of chains—then a scratching like a trapped and almost spent wild creature—then came a ...

    Article : 56 words
  11. INVISIBLE AND INSANE.

    A schoolmaster wishing to test the ability of his pupils put to them the question: "What is meant by the saying, "Out of sight, out of mind' ?" ...

    Article : 71 words
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  13. FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

    An old woman was giving a lecture to the village ne'er-do-well on the evil effects of strong drink. "Do you know, John," she said, "you ...

    Article : 81 words
  14. THE MODERN WAY.

    "I want to ,be a pirate, Uncle, when I grow up," said little Billy, looking up from his copy of 'Billy, the Bold Buccaneer.' " ...

    Article : 60 words
  15. HIS WAY OUT.

    A boy punctuated his composition very poorly. Frequent corrections were of no avail, and the boy was dismayed, the teacher disgusted. Finally the boy ...

    Article : 70 words
  16. SPLENDID.

    Mrs. Biggs was explaining the routine of the house to the new cook she had just engaged. "On Monday and Tuesday we lunch at ...

    Article : 84 words
  17. PROUD OF HIS JOB.

    A very pompous farmer was made a Justice of the Peace, and was so impressed with the dignity of his position that the village where he lived was much ...

    Article : 96 words
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