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  2. THAT REMINDS ME: Stories to Laugh Over. LOYAL TO THE ORGANISATION.

    THE new school-teacher in a rural town gave a boy a question in compound proportion for home work one evening. It included the circumstance of "men working ten ...

    Article : 162 words
  3. AN ESSAY.

    THIS is an unedited essay by a London schoolboy on the postman:—The postman has to be up eerly in the morning to meat the males at the station. ...

    Article : 136 words
  4. CAUGHT!

    "MARY, have you practised regularly on the piano while I have been away?" a fond mother who had just returned from the country asked her promising thirteen-year-old daughter. ...

    Article : 96 words
  5. NEW BRAND.

    THE other day a bootblack was puffing away at the end of a cigar when a gentleman, thinking to have a little fun at the boy's expense, asked him if he always smoked ...

    Article : 96 words
  6. PAT'S REASONING.

    TOMMY, having climbed the apple tree, found he could not get down, and began to wail piteoualy. "Niver ye moind," said Pat, the gardener. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 102 words
  7. KNEW THE GAME.

    A FARMER took out a fire insurance policy on his barn. After a loss and due proofs, the company came to settle or adjust the loss, but took advantage of its option under the ...

    Article : 95 words
  8. CLUCK, CLUCK!

    A WOMAN who lived in the outskirts of a city sent home to bor husband, while she was on a visit to the country, some hens, ...

    Article : 85 words
  9. A GET-OUT.

    "NOW, ARCHIE," asked the schoolmistress, dilating on the virtue of politeness, "if you were seated in a tramcar, every seat of ...

    Article : 42 words
  10. SOLID GRANITE.

    THE inquisitive traveller kept poking his head out of the window of the car, to the great annoyance of the conductor, who ...

    Article : 102 words
  11. MERELY WANTED TO KNOW.

    HER father strode angrily into the parlor just as the clock had finished striking midnight. "Look here, young man," he ...

    Article : 104 words
  12. TOO TENDER-HEARTED.

    THEY had been talking as they walked through the autumn-tinted, leafy groves; and she had remarked, with real feeling in her voice:— ...

    Article : 98 words
  13. REALLY UNKIND.

    SAM was reading the paper, when suddenly he snorted and addressed Mrs. Sam:—"What tomfoolery, Maria! It says here that some idiot has actually paid a thousand guineas ...

    Article : 86 words
  14. REAL EXCITEMENT.

    "YES," said the meek-looking man, "I've no doubt you've had some great hunting experience in your travels abroad." "I have indeed." ...

    Article : 58 words
  15. IT PLAYED LAST.

    IT'S curious," said Brown, "how coming events cast their shadows before them. "I'll wager a fiver nose of you gentlemen can guess what was the last thing played on the ...

    Article : 89 words
  16. NO SWIMMING.

    LITTLE JOHNNY, who is of in inquiring turn, was having a quiet talk with his mother. Johnny wanted to know why Mr. Jusgins married Mrs. Juggins. His mother wasn't ...

    Article : 83 words
  17. A SMART RETORT.

    HE wished to be poetic, and it seemed to him that he had a good simile. As he leant towards her he produced a ring. "My love for you," he said, "is like this ...

    Article : 75 words
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