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  2. The Gillingham Rubies

    Save for the melancholy of Lord Fleetham, who had not only failed to borrow more than ten pounds from Absalom, but had also lost every ...

    Article : 4,393 words
  3. MY LEAP YEAR PROPOSAL.

    This year of grace, 1924, is a Leap Year. I am not putting forward this statement as an original discovery of my ...

    Article : 654 words
  4. THE HARDEST RACE IN THE WORLD.

    In February of each year the little town of La Pas, in the wilds of Manitoba, is the scene of one of the most wonderful races in the world. It is ...

    Article : 626 words
  5. THE OBJECTOR.

    Jacques had not been over from France very long and did not know the language very well; so when he wanted to know the meaning of a word ...

    Article : 122 words
  6. A LONG WAY ROUND.

    "I say," said a bumptious individual, obviously a stranger, to a man standing at the street corner, "just tell me how I can get to Blank Street." ...

    Article : 156 words
  7. THE RECTOR UNDERSTOOD.

    The Dutchman still retained a strong accent, although he had been in the country forty years, and he was a churchwarden. When the rector ...

    Article : 64 words
  8. THE HOST SURPRISED.

    A former Japanese ambassador was staying with an Englishman whose gardens were famous, and his host conducted him with appropriate ...

    Article : 97 words
  9. FIRST TO FINISH.

    The children of the Pittman family were, according to their respective accounts, all first in something at school. Tommy was first in reading, ...

    Article : 75 words
  10. AMONGST THE GREAT.

    A certain composer—we will call him Jiffers—has a happy appreciation of his own work. So highly does he estimate his ...

    Article : 83 words
  11. ANY OFFERS?

    An old Negro preacher owned a mule which had an efficient pair of heels and a loud but unmusical voice. One Sunday morning, while the ...

    Article : 105 words
  12. TAKING PRECAUTIONS.

    "If you could have two wishes come true, what would they be?" "Well, I'd wish for a husband." "That's one." ...

    Article : 359 words
  13. THE TRAVELLER'S TALE.

    "Travelled!" said a sailor in a train to a passenger who had questioned him. "I should think I 'ave. I've been all round the world; over an' under it, ...

    Article : 77 words
  14. DIDN'T MATTER.

    At a recent agricultural dinner a son of the plough sat beside a woman of title, a friend of the squire, and while he was extolling some feature ...

    Article : 263 words
  15. OBEYING ORDERS.

    A Scottish minister had contracted a habit which annoyed his wife. He would refer to "my" house, "my" table, "my" piano, "my" boy, "my" ...

    Article : 99 words
  16. FORCE OF HABIT.

    A hard drunkard was told by his doctor that he could be cured if every time he felt that he must have a drink he would immediately take ...

    Article : 146 words
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