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  2. Mark Brown's Wife: A Tale of the Gold-fields.

    "I've nearly come to the end of my yarn, mates," continued Tom Drewe. "Them's the only three times as I see her—for I was sent to the hospital with something wrong with my head, and I didn't get over it ...

    Article : 3,243 words
  3. THE LADIES' WORKTABLE.

    Materials—Scarlet, blue, or pink single Berlin wool black filoselle, two wooden needles, No. 10. This seat for the throat is composed of light open knitting in scarlet blue, pink, or any coloured single Berlin wool, inters[?]ven ...

    Article : 312 words
  4. "HER FATHER'S DARLING."

    A TINY, happy face, Six sunny tumbled curls, Two rosebud lips apart Disclosing milk-white pearls. ...

    Article : 162 words
  5. DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

    TO EXTERMINATE BEETLES, place a few lumps of unslaked lime where they frequent. LEMON HONEY.—½ lb. sugar, 2 oz. butter, one egg, two lemons; grate the rind and extract the juice from both. Put ...

    Article : 521 words
  6. "HER FATHER'S ANGEL."

    A tiny weary face, A hot flashed cheek and brow,— "Nurse me, Papa, I'm tired, I don't want dolly now." ...

    Article : 179 words
  7. "HIS DARLING'S HOME."

    They say, "He has forgotten How hard it was to part;" But the wound is not quite healed Yet in her father's heart. ...

    Article : 143 words
  8. LIGHT READING.

    A youth, while travelling in California, was ambitiously displaying a small pistol before a brawny miner, whose belt was weighed with two heavy revolvers, when the miner asked what he had there. "Why," replied the youth, ...

    Article : 817 words
  9. THE HOME CIRCLE.

    1. My first is a short sheep, my second is a vowel, my third is a province in Spain, and my whole ia an ex-European monarch. 2. My first is a black substance, my second is to procure, ...

    Article : 99 words
  10. ENIGMA.

    A workman there is who makes shoes without leather, Of all the four elements jumbled together; There's fire, there's water, there's earth, and there's air, And all of his clients at once wear two pair. ...

    Article : 37 words
  11. CONUNDRUMS.

    1. Why is a fall when out with the hounds like the town of St. Ives? 2. Why is a bell just hung like a bride at church? 3. A gentleman inquired a lady's age, and was told seven ...

    Article : 103 words
  12. ANSWERS TO OUR LAST.

    ENIGMA.—The letter S. DECAPITATIONS—1. Glass, lass, ass, as. 2. Fever. CONUNDRUMS.—1. You sit upon one, and stand on the other. 2. As a hole with a rim round it. 3. Because we ...

    Article : 59 words
  13. TO CORRESPONDENTS.

    Received.—J. B., Newcastle; A. J. H., Warnbrook Lake, Cooma. THE GLASS OF WATER TRICK.—This is a mere trick, but may afford some amusement. You offer to bet any ...

    Article : 177 words
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