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  4. Funny Fragments. Condescending.

    During the personal canvass of a board of guardians' candidate among the electors of a Yorkshire town, a gentleman called at a small sweetshop and asked the boy in charge for his ...

    Article : 90 words
  5. Bandbox Episode.

    Lady Ellenborough, a renowned beauty, on one occasion accompanied the judge on circuit, on the distinct understanding that she should not incumber the carriages with band ...

    Article : 124 words
  6. Gathered Grain.

    Many naturalists who cruise about the Highland lochs use glass-bottomed boats in studying sea life. It has just leaked out that the private ...

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  7. Face Value Illustrated.

    During the last political campaign an ardent populist, with the proverbial long flowing beard, was delivering a speech some-where in the wilds of Kansas. During the ...

    Article : 129 words
  8. Lesson in Thrift.

    Guy, the founder of Guy's Hospital in London, was as parsimonious in private life as he was munificent in public. John Hopkins one of his contemporaries, who was ...

    Article : 160 words
  9. Music Saved Her Life.

    "The fact that I am a good musician," said the lady from a country village, "was the means of saving my life during the flood which swept away a great part of our town a ...

    Article : 93 words
  10. They Gathered Him Together

    This conversation took place after dinner in the sitting-room of a Blackpool boarding-house: "When I heard the bicycle bell," said the ...

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  11. Rough on Pat.

    Two Irish soldiers stationed in the West Indies were accustomed to bathe daily in a little bay which was generally supposed to be free from sharks. Though on good terms ...

    Article : 196 words
  12. Chips and Chaff.

    Po[?]t: "Give me a word that's synonymous with 'crop.'" Amateur farmer (sadly): "Failure." Browne: "Who wrote 'Birds of a feather ...

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  13. Couldn't Humbug Charley.

    Many years ago, when Londoners had not the exenrsion facilities for getting into the country that they enjoy now, a Cockney friend was staying at a farmhouse, and soon ...

    Article : 113 words
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  15. Blown off a Chimney.

    A Scotch journal says that a certain well known painter went to a seaside village to paint a picture, and put up at a small public-house. One day, while in his room, he ...

    Article : 233 words
  16. Better Silent.

    Some years ago there resided in a rural district of England a magistrate who was most cordially detested by all the villagers on account of his harshness and arbitrary ...

    Article : 141 words
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