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  2. The Storyteller.

    Maud sat rigid and white, her senses alive and wakened, while her bodily powers seemed numbed and dead. She drank in every word: she well comprehended the meaning of each ...

    Article : 3,047 words
  3. A Cairo "Chambermaid."

    THREE are strange chamber[?] at some of the Cal[?] het[?] A lady declares that the one who waited on her room and attended to all the duties of the calling, even to making ...

    Article : 129 words
  4. Original Poetry

    To Maryborough's future candidates for Parliamentary honours this acreed is respectfully dedicated with all humility by the writer. To the modern politician of the true colonial ...

    Article : 656 words
  5. Bachelor Barclay.

    WHEN we were first married we bought a little cottage in the midst of a pretty garden—a cottage that had just four rooms and a garret in all, but we wanted ...

    Article : 2,196 words
  6. His Share.

    WRITING lines is the usual penance at Harrow for all offences committed in or out of school. There was one clever boy who escaped writing half the ordered quantity, and ...

    Article : 227 words
  7. The Cheapest Restaurants in the World.

    IN New York, good, wholesome well-cooked, and cle[?] served meals are provided at Prices varying from 4 cents (2d.) to 10 cents (5d.) For the latter price a good dinner of ...

    Article : 264 words
  8. A Made-up Story.

    TOWARDS the end of 1777 the Abbe Raynal, calling on Dr. Franklin, found, in company with the doctor, their common friend Silas Deane. ...

    Article : 259 words
  9. He Got Off.

    IT was a case of chicken stealing, and the prints of bare fret we[?] found in the gravel around the hen-house. The lawyer for the prosecution was one who, if he had been ...

    Article : 295 words
  10. The Troubles of 'Bus Conductors.

    AN old lady hailed a pasting omnibus, which pulled up at her call. "Good-bye, then, my dear," she said to a female friend who had accompaned her. "I'll write and ...

    Article : 221 words
  11. A Witch on Trial.

    WHEN Lord Chief Justice Holt presided in the Court of King's Bench, a poor decrepit old creature was brought before him, charged as a criminal on whom the full severity of the ...

    Article : 322 words
  12. Flotsam.

    CARRIE: "I love all that is grand, noble, and majestic, and beautiful." Jack: "Thank you very much, Miss Carrie, but—er—really you embarrass me." ...

    Article : 645 words
  13. Corn Planting.

    PROFESSOR I. P. Roberts, director of the Cornell College Experimental Station, relates a curious experience in confirmation of his theory that plating, corn in hills has much ...

    Article : 398 words
  14. Advertising

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    Advertising : 160 words
  15. Too Good for this World.

    HOUSEKEEPER (to pleasant-faced girl at employment agency): "Have you any objections to the country?" Girl (politely): "None at all madam." ...

    Article : 199 words
  16. Marine Messengers.

    SOME years ago, the Prince of Monaco had upwards of one thousand six hundred and seventy large bottles, encased in a thin copper covering, thrown into the sea at different ...

    Article : 184 words
  17. Unclaimed Letters.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 81 words
  18. Payable Boarders.

    MRS. SLIM[?] "I've done my best to get along, but it seems to me the more boarders I have, the less money I make." Mrs. Faturse: "No wonder. You've got ...

    Article : 117 words
  19. Advertising

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    Advertising : 171 words
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