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  2. Funny Fragments. Smile, Please!

    A young lady at an evening school had before her a class of very rough lads. "Suppose," said she, "I should say, 'Look out, boys! here comes the police!' ...

    Article : 87 words
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  5. Not Likely to Be Successful.

    Finding business very slack, a certain country shopkeeper decided to send his son into the neighbourhood to solicit orders. He was by no means a bright youth, and could ...

    Article : 101 words
  6. Gathered Grain.

    It is estimated that the death-rate of thoworld is 67 a minute, and the birth-rate 70 a minute. London omnibuses carried 79,000,000 ...

    Article : 747 words
  7. Her Mouth.

    It is said that a certain English portrait painter has almost as great a reputation for joking as for taking excellent likenesses. One evening he was speaking of a beautiful ...

    Article : 122 words
  8. Chips and Chaff.

    She: "Was that a through train you just cams in on?" He: "Yes; but I was afraid it never would be.. "I say, Jones, do you never hunger for ...

    Article : 808 words
  9. "Out of the Frying-pan, &c."

    A Londoner fell out of employment and was obliged to pawn some of his belongings, including a watch. When he got into collar again all his spare ...

    Article : 145 words
  10. Like Our Ducks.

    Some time ago a gentleman in the north of England took his little son into a public refreshment-room. Soon after they entired a stout man got up ...

    Article : 91 words
  11. Queen of the May.

    The following story is told of a certain navigating officer of the Royal Navy. The officer in question was being tried by court-martial for being drunk, and his ...

    Article : 145 words
  12. He Stood High.

    A Jacksonville broker, while travelling in the Alabama mountains, was invited by a friend, a local judge, to attend the trial of a "cracker" for shooting a "nigger;" and, ...

    Article : 266 words
  13. Not the First Time.

    For a time after the battle of Waterloo the Duke of Wellington resided in Paris. The French generals and officers took little pains to conceal their dislike of their great ...

    Article : 97 words
  14. Doing the Dun.

    "I was in the rooms of an excellent bachelor of Caius some little time ago," writes Max Pemberton in the "Windsor Megazine," "when a dun entered to collect an account for ...

    Article : 540 words
  15. How Some Figures Lie.

    It is wrong to deceive little children, and yet even in the books they use at school you can find the most outrageously false statements. I have before me a little volume called ...

    Article : 217 words
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  17. Just as You Were Last Night

    It was on a Denver newspaper that the funniest piece of journalistic work ever done by Hark Twain was suppressed by a too friendly proof-reader. Hark had been ...

    Article : 337 words
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