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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 58 words
  3. MOTHER COULDN'T OBJECT.

    "Does your mother allow you to have two pieces of pie when you are at home, Willie?" asked his hostess. "No, ma'am." ...

    Article : 56 words
  4. The Joker's Corner

    He: "Well, I'm willing to admit that I was wrong." She: "You'll have to do more than that." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 54 words
  5. DISCRETION.

    Jimmy Tipper's sister was getting married, and Jimmy had confided to his schoolboy friends that he was to appear at the ceremony in all the ...

    Article : 140 words
  6. SORRY HE SPOKE.

    One of the wittiest of clergymen, advocating the habit of preaching extempore sermons instead of reading written ones, said he had heard of ...

    Article : 99 words
  7. TEARFUL PICTURE.

    "I remember one picture that brought tears to my eyes." "A pathetic subject, I presume? "No, sir; it was a fruit painting. ...

    Article : 39 words
  8. A PRIZE-WINNER.

    Yeomanry Office (to trooper whose horse continually falls to the rear): "How's this? "You told me your horse had won half a dozen matches ...

    Article : 53 words
  9. PAT SCORED.

    An Irishman and an Englishman met one day, and in the course of conversation the Englishman said:— "I knew a dog, and he ate the leg ...

    Article : 50 words
  10. WHY HE WAS LATE.

    A youngster had been permitted to visit a boy friend on the strict condition that he was to leave there at five o'clock. He did not arrive home ...

    Article : 127 words
  11. PRECEPT AND PRACTICE.

    Tommy: "I say, mother, didn't father say that hard work was good and noble?”Mother: "Yes, dear; why do you ...

    Article : 54 words
  12. ONE ADVANTAGE.

    Visitor: "Has the girl next door to you still got her piano?" Host: “No, she exchanged it for a cornet, I'm glad to say." ...

    Article : 53 words
  13. A DIFFICULT PIECE.

    He was a member of a regimental band, and he did not forget to brag about it. "Why, man, we can play the most ...

    Article : 59 words
  14. JUST LIKE A MAN.

    "George," she said, "before we were married you were always giving me presents. Why don't you ever bring me anything now?" ...

    Article : 56 words
  15. A HARD JOB.

    One afternoon in the trenches an Irish soldier discovered that the man on his right was wearing a beautiful pair of boots. ...

    Article : 135 words
  16. ANOTHER ENGAGEMENT.

    One Sunday morning a father suggested to his daughter that she ought to go to church in the evening, the subject of the discourse being "An ...

    Article : 77 words
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  18. ONE WAS FORGOTTEN.

    "Have you ever noticed," Said Smithkins, "how fond people are of botanical metaphors when they are dealing with a woman? Her cheeks ...

    Article : 79 words
  19. A GIFT.

    A dignified Bishop, while passing along a London street, heard three vegetable hawkers engaged in a rather blasphemous argument. ...

    Article : 72 words
  20. A TAILOR'S NOTICE.

    It is nice to know in these days of lost reputations that Oriental hospitality, at any rate, shows no signs of decadence. A correspondent has ...

    Article : 54 words
  21. NOTHING DOING.

    Rat-a-tat-tat! The old soldier stood on the doorstep and listened. "Washing-day," he muttered; "no ...

    Article : 102 words
  22. VERY CORRECT.

    A young farmer, wishing to have his banns published, went to see the parish clergyman. The reverend gentleman asked him ...

    Article : 64 words
  23. HER ANSWER.

    A young lady, by no means beautiful, was introduced to a gentleman who was endowed with good looks, but not manners. During the course ...

    Article : 66 words
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  25. NOT STEALING.

    A British soldier in Belgium was one morning wending his way to camp with a fine rooster in his arms, when he was stopped by his colonel ...

    Article : 74 words
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