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  2. A GOOD HEAD.

    The village schoolmaster had urged his boys to take up fretwork and carpentery as hobbies. He had also arranged for small prizes to be given ...

    Article : 93 words
  3. Nature Stories

    None of our interesting native wasps is more easy to study than the clever and busy paper-nest species, because they so often come to our houses to ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,424 words
  4. What the Spider Saw

    The spider hung in the roof of the old building. A very old rat, that lived permanently in the adjacent lane in the pre-rat-gang days, had told her ...

    Article : 1,519 words
  5. TRUE FLATTERY

    She always felt somewhat timid in the bank. It was such a rich bank, and so many very rich persons had accounts there. ...

    Article : 125 words
  6. REFERRED TO THE JURY

    There is a certain youngster who will never be subpoenaed as a witness by a certain attorney. The latter has decided that one encounter with that ...

    Article : 120 words
  7. THE BRUTE

    He and his young wife were taken for a motor trip by some friends. She admired his anxiety about her comfort. "Are you all right?" he asked. ...

    Article : 60 words
  8. CONSIDERATE

    In the middle of the night father heard in the next room—Roger's room —a murmur, very, very soft. "Papa, papa! Mamma!" ...

    Article : 96 words
  9. SOMETHING LAUGHABLE WHAT THE BOY HAD.

    The boy had been fishing on the river's bank for quite four hours, when an inquisitive man came along and inquired what he was doing. ...

    Article : 61 words
  10. CHIPS AND CHAFF

    Tom: Do you ever take your wife to a prize-fight? John: Goodness, no! She knows enough now! He: Lina, am I the first man to ask ...

    Article : 441 words
  11. WHAT WORRIED HIM.

    An old salt was watching a crowd of youngsters playing perilously near the edge of the pier. Quite suddenly he rushed up to them and seized one ...

    Article : 78 words
  12. THE PAINFUL PUNSTER.

    A golfer was practising mashle shots in his garden. "It Isn't too easy," he explained to a friend. "I take a lot of pains to get ...

    Article : 67 words
  13. STRANGE WEDDING ATTIRE.

    A tailoring firm received a letter which ran: "Dear Sirs,—I shall be glad if you will let me know what is the correct dress for a groom in the ...

    Article : 95 words
  14. THE TEST

    A gruff old practitioner of the type of the last generation, who is the official physician of the schools of a near-by town, was examining the ...

    Article : 138 words
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