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  2. True as Steel.

    It was san at on the noble Yarra, far up beyond this wild city, and the chaste parting osculation of the solar orb had caused the Western firmament to blush like a basket ...

    Article : 604 words
  3. Twenty-eight Years Ago.

    TWENTY-EIGHT years! Great Scott! can it be so long? Twenty-eight years! and yet one has but to muse a moment, and old faces, old memories, old situations, old ...

    Article : 3,839 words
  4. A Few Common Liars.

    "I said in my haste," remarked the psalmist, "all men are liars." That there are more liars in the world to-day than there were in David's time goes without saying ...

    Article : 468 words
  5. A Remedy for Thirst.

    In the majority of cases, people are cre[?]lous in the matter of new remedies, and hasten at the first opportunity to justify their confidences. Mr. Pilaster is each a ...

    Article : 895 words
  6. Mr. and Mrs. Snapper.

    "Oh I so you have come home, have you?" snarled Mrs. Snapper, as she opened the street door at three a.m., in response to her husband's timid knock. ...

    Article : 806 words
  7. A Colonial Aristocrat.

    "Yes," said Mrs. Quickrick, "our new house is nearly finished, and we shall be ready to deceive our friends in a few weeks. Mr. Q. has bought an elegant Bristles carpet ...

    Article : 321 words
  8. The Source of Proverbs.

    The following are from the Bible: "There is death in the pot."—II Kings, ir, 40. "Lovely and pleasant in their lives, and ...

    Article : 633 words
  9. [?] and Kumar

    Speaking of animals, what does the catamount to? We very frequently see ministers, but never a church with a surplice. ...

    Article : 655 words
  10. How He Had the Operator.

    The following conversation occurred outside an up-country telegraph office: Countryman—"That fellow in the telegraph office up there thought he was mighty ...

    Article : 299 words
  11. A Funny Dog.

    Mr. Jones had just returned from town, where he had been to get a horse shod, and purchase a few domestic necessities. As he took his accustomed seat at the dinner table ...

    Article : 279 words
  12. What Women Didn't Know.

    I thought women knew everything about everything. But they don't. I don't like to tell the story. It is a kind of a give away. There were three or four ladies enjoying that ...

    Article : 312 words
  13. Didn't Know It Was Loaded.

    "Julia, did that young man who called on you last evening kiss you just before he left the house?" "Why, mamma!—could you hear?" ...

    Article : 135 words
  14. Change Enough.

    One of those chronic dead-beats who habitually infest society boarded a Collins street tram-car, and proceeded to develop his little game. It was by no means a new one ...

    Article : 215 words
  15. She Must Have Been Weak.

    "Ma, said little Tommy Brown, as he suddenly looked up from his book, "Ma, I don't think the new governess is very strong, do you?" ...

    Article : 166 words
  16. Towels for Dinner.

    A young lady member of a travelling burlesque company was stopping at an hotel in this city with some other lady-members of the company not long ago, and on her ...

    Article : 98 words
  17. Much Obliged.

    Particular Smoker (who has become newly suffocated by his neighbor's cigar)—" Won't you try one of these, sir? You'll find it smokes well." ...

    Article : 48 words
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