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  2. Pastime.

    Owing to the indisposition of our Pastime Editor, we are compelled to omit the usual puzzles and answers this week. Our contributors and correspondents may depend on their appearing in our next issue. ...

    Article : 35 words
  3. Humour & Wit.

    There were seven of them—seven brothers—and they all played billiards, and rode seven chestnut cobs. The youngest was Herbert Mortimer, and if there was one thing he loved better than billiards it was his cob Philibert; and if there was one thing ...

    Article : 1,220 words
  4. Young Folks

    Tiptoe before the mirror Ruth, Nell, and May; Mamma, by the window, sewing. ...

    Article : 156 words
  5. NOTES ON AMATEUR THEATRICALS.

    There is no form of amusement for long evenings at once so rational and so satisfactory as amateur acting. It draws people into sociable and intellectual intimacy with each other; affords opportunity for practice in that fearfully neglected ...

    Article : 1,798 words
  6. Work and Play.

    Remember, my son, you have to work. Whether you handle a pick or a pen, a wheelbarrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a newspaper, ringing an auction bell, or writing funny things, you must work. If you look ...

    Article : 356 words
  7. A Christmas Dinner with the Man in the Moon.

    The master of the feast holds in his hand a speakingtrumpet, with which he can converse with his guests upon the right; for it is only by the aid of this that he can make himself heard. The waiters who come to serve the ...

    Article : 1,390 words
  8. Chess Player.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 20 words
  9. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 298.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 40 words
  10. CHESS IN LONDON.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 565 words
  11. A HAIR RESTORER.

    It was one of the by-laws of Heartache's Heavenly Hair-Raiser that it be used liberally before retiring, robbing it well into the scalp. Just before he went to bed that night the man bolted the back door, put the cat in the wood-shed, came in whistling the ...

    Article : 602 words
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    "See here, Georgie," said a fond mamma to her little son, as they walked on the beach, "what a lot of nice little round stones!" "Yes," grumbled Georgie, as he cast a searching glance around, "and not a blessed thing to throw 'em at!" ...

    Article : 215 words
  13. TO A PLATE OF HASH.

    Inscrutable! Though subtler than the sphinx, Thou hast no inspiration for the hind; The dullard deals with thee, nor ever thinks To ask thee for the food that feeds the mind, ...

    Article : 114 words
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