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  2. Funny Fragments.

    Sergeant: Now, then, don't you know how to hold your rifle? Recruit: I've run a splinter in my finger. Sergeant (exasperated): Oh, you 'ave, 'ave you? ...

    Article : 35 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 185 words
  4. ECONOMY.

    He was an ingenious small boy. "Mamma," he said, "will you wash my face?" "Why, John, can't you do that?" ...

    Article : 42 words
  5. STUCK.

    In these days the London Post Office has to be very particular about regulations comcerning stamps on parcels going to the army in Flanders. ...

    Article : 74 words
  6. GOT HIS ANSWER.

    The smart travelling man stood at a corner in the little country village at dusk. He was looking for amusement, and the first object that attracted his ...

    Article : 97 words
  7. A KNIGHT ALL THE TIME.

    It was in New York. He was of a very decided English type, and as he stopped an Irishman and asked for a light he volunteered to say:— ...

    Article : 110 words
  8. NAP'S NEW NAME.

    It was a very small student who astonished his father, a practitioner of medicine, by propounding the following question:— ...

    Article : 96 words
  9. MIXED METAPHORS.

    This is an extract from the report of a congress dealing with sweated labour held in London:— "Thornton Burke gave a terrible picture ...

    Article : 118 words
  10. PRIDE AND A FALL.

    "When I was running a circus," added the retired showman, "I never lost an opportunity of advertising. I always had my eye on the main chance, and I made ...

    Article : 182 words
  11. Agent-General.

    The Agent-General for Queensland (Sir Thomas Robinson) has made another interesting record of the activities of his department, for the year 1914, and the ...

    Article : 1,504 words
  12. THE LOST BISHOP

    The distinguished and well-beloved bishop of a certain South American State is so absent-minded that his family is always apprehensive for his welfare when ...

    Article : 133 words
  13. CHIPS AND CHAFF.

    "You should always heap coals of fire on your enemy's head." "What do you think I am? A millionaire?" He: "Do you mean to say you haven't ...

    Article : 648 words
  14. LAUGHED OFF.

    There is a certain noted surgeon who had, some months ago, a very splendid crop of hair. Although the surgeon is not old, his hair is snow-white, and he is ...

    Article : 146 words
  15. IT WAS PAID.

    As the gas bill of a "portable" theatre showing in a provincial town for a month had not been paid at the week's and (when it became due), a man ...

    Article : 179 words
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