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  2. Stories of Mr. [?]

    There is a story of a thirsty traveller who ran Mr. Ruskin to earth in a lonely lane near his home the other day. The k[?]ger looked every inch a journalist, and ...

    Article : 605 words
  3. Spray.

    This story is told of a North-country [?]rant girl who was living with a family In the neighbourhood of Oxford. One wet day she happened to step into a heap of ...

    Article : 138 words
  4. The Sketcher.

    An Artist. A Girl. Time: A Bummer afternoon. Scene: The road from pourviile to Dieppe. Artist: Well, so the picnic is over, and ...

    Article : 1,303 words
  5. Short Story.

    The General had been out in the West almost continuously for thirty-five years. He had enlisted as a private in 1862, when he was 17, lying patriotically ...

    Article : 3,609 words
  6. Curions Inn Sig[?]

    In the Mile End road, London, stands the Bell And 'Mackerel, to record the anecdete of a man who, when be caught a [?]sh which he desired to keep for his dinner on some ...

    Article : 428 words
  7. Quite Strong Enough.

    In [?]e of our northern manufacturing suburbs, a wealthy mill-owner was extolling the many virtues of teetotalism before a large audience. ...

    Article : 68 words
  8. Saved by His Impudence

    At a certain school in Accrington, writing lines is a penance given to boys after school hours for misconduct. The other day the master, who had very ...

    Article : 159 words
  9. Who Was the Fool?

    A gentleman travelling to Perthshire left his luggage with a porter, got into a smoking-carriage and read his paper comfortably till the train should start. ...

    Article : 122 words
  10. Baden-Powell as Sherlock Holmes.

    Colonel Baden-Powell, the defender at Mafeking is the Sherlock Holmes of the British army, for no one has employed the methods of the great detective of Action to ...

    Article : 375 words
  11. A H[?]ed Yours Ago.

    Sir Walter Besant, writing in " The Queen," describes a lac-simile of the first number of one of the oldest provincial papers, the " Portsmouth Telegraph," ...

    Article : 542 words
  12. Done!

    Exhibitor (calling attention to a sixmonth-old baby): " Here, ladies and gentlemen. is the wonder of the century. This baby can read any book or paper you ...

    Article : 84 words
  13. How She Managed It.

    " Frances," said the little girl's mamma, who was entertaining callers in the parlour, " you came downstairs so noisily that you could be heard all over the house. You ...

    Article : 150 words
  14. Why He Was Sad.

    He was leaning over the edge of the boat. His profile, clear cut against the setting sun, betrayed the Hebrew blood that coursed in his veins. ...

    Article : 70 words
  15. A " Dispute" with the Queen.

    A writer in the " Figaro'' some time ago related an amusing anecdote of a dispute. If the word may be need, that took plate between her Majesty and Thomson, her gillie. ...

    Article : 338 words
  16. His Farewell.

    A clergyman in the West Country had two curates, one a comparatively old man, the other very young. With the fonmer he had not been able to ...

    Article : 101 words
  17. Long Steps.

    Some time ago a number of constables were assembled at New Scotland Yard for the purpose of being examined in matters relating to police duty previous to being ...

    Article : 105 words
  18. About Lob[?]rs

    Mr. Frank Buekland assures us that lobsters have natural affection for their young. The old lobster has been seen lying with its head peeping from under a rock, with its ...

    Article : 200 words
  19. Urt Him?

    A well-known comedian tells a story that comes all the way from Quebec. He was sight-seeing with a Tommy Atkins one day while in that city, and they had as ...

    Article : 94 words
  20. Something like a Cook

    A lady had a cook who gave her every satisfaction and she was under the impression that the cook was equally saa[?]ed with her place. (But one morning, to the lady's ...

    Article : 216 words
  21. True Genius.

    Hix: "That fellow Jenks is a clever, ingenious chap, isn't he?" Dix: "Why, I never heard of his doing anything remarkable." ...

    Article : 41 words
  22. President M'Klnley.

    Here is a good story about President M'Klnley. The President was taking a Stroll to a Washington suburb, [?] observed a little girl of 7 or 8 su[?]ing the ...

    Article : 159 words
  23. What Job Did Not Have to Do.

    A young man has a wife who is continually referring him to Job as an example to be emulated. One morning lately he lost his collar-stud ...

    Article : 125 words
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