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  2. POETRY A RUSSIAN LEGEND.

    The stillness of death broods o'er valley and mountain, The snow [?]ss below like a funeral shrond; The clutch of the ice chokes the song of the ...

    Article : 453 words
  3. THE STORY-TELLER.

    "Smoking carriage, sir?" said, the tipexpecting porter, as he bore my rugs and minor packages along the platform. I said "Yes," and he made me comfortable, and ...

    Article : 1,701 words
  4. GENERALITIES.

    A true word is often spoken in jest but we always like it to be about some other fellow. The demand for chairs that Washington once sat in is keeping American ...

    Article : 906 words
  5. A SHOCK.

    A pursw proud old nobleman was travelling through the rural districts of Sweden, where evidently the people do not have quite as much respect for titled persons as in some other ...

    Article : 252 words
  6. AS HEHAD "AYE DUNE"

    A Glasgow minister tells the following incident with much amusement:—Having observed that one of his congregation was in the habit of gazing about the ...

    Article : 101 words
  7. A BRUTAL FATHER.

    The train was just about to start. There were three of us in the carriage—myself and two ladies—when a young man thrust himself in, carrying a baby. He looked very young ...

    Article : 333 words
  8. THE HUMORIST. YET AGAINI

    The Moravians (remarks Walter Besant in the Queen) send wives out to their missionaries, who are not allowed to choose for themselves, for the very proper reason that men who do ...

    Article : 145 words
  9. THE DISAPPOINTED.

    There are songs enongh for a hero Who dwells on the height of fame; I sing for the disappointed—For those who have missed their aim. ...

    Article : 192 words
  10. HE'D PUNCH HIS UGLY HEAD.

    When the "Buffs" lay at Aldersbott, about two years since, a private of the regiment was one day, at the town station, walking up and down the platform waiting for a train. The ...

    Article : 147 words
  11. WELL PROTECTED.

    It is all too common to misunderstand the true nature of a medicine, as any one must confess, remembering the story of the nurse who awoke her patient in order to administer ...

    Article : 135 words
  12. TO A JILT.

    When first we corresponded, you Wrote "Sir" and I wrote "Madam;" But that was when you knew not me, Nor I knew you, from Adam. ...

    Article : 287 words
  13. SCARING THE CABBY.

    The famous Harlequin Rich played so many mad pranks off the stage that once he was better known through his practical jokes than through his talents. One of them caused him ...

    Article : 285 words
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  16. "OWER MUCKLE TO EXPECT."

    In S. R. Crockett's last book there is given a discussion by some Galloway shepherds on the death of the devil. "The minister was sayin'," remarked one, "that the new ...

    Article : 175 words
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