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  2. Short Story,

    “Couldn’t you wait for me ?” asked the boy eagerly. “ Wait for you ! What an absurd Idea !” laughed the girl. “Why, you are ...

    Article : 1,370 words
  3. The Table.

    Take a small pig’s head, which has been in pickle for a week, and one pound and a-half of lean beef steak, cut about an Inch thick. Place the meat in a ...

    Article : 154 words
  4. THE FARM.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,233 words
  5. Comic Cuttings.

    “That last poem of Jones’s has the right ring,” said the editor. “How so?” “When I opened it a half-sovereign dropped out!” ...

    Article : 796 words
  6. A Remarkable Adventure.

    Mr. Arthur Stradling relates the following adventure :—“I had shipped at Rangoon on board a steamer bound for Shanghai. When I signed she was ...

    Article : 572 words
  7. Cheese Sandwiches.

    Cheese sandwiches are always popular at a picnic, and if cut before starting and wrapped in water-proof paper, they will keep moist and good for many ...

    Article : 77 words
  8. Gingerbread Fingers.

    Dry one pound of flour, and pass through a sieve. When cold rub in 2oz. of butter and 3oz. of lard. Then add to the flour, &c., two teaspoonfuls of baking ...

    Article : 100 words
  9. Sponge Cake.

    Put a piece of butter rather larger than an egg into a basin to melt in the oven, then add a teacupful of fine sugar, teacupful of milk, pinch of salt, three ...

    Article : 78 words
  10. Custard.

    Two eggs well beaten and a [?]. sugar to a pint of milk seasoned with cinnamon or bay leaf and pinch of salt Steam for an hour. Another way is to take one ...

    Article : 133 words
  11. German Pancake.

    The Germans make the most delicious pancakes by adding stewed pineapples to a plain pancake batter of eggs, flour, and milk. ...

    Article : 103 words
  12. Hatfield House.

    Pepys visited Hatfield in July, 1661 (as his fellow diarist, Evelyn, had eighteen years before), and, after referring to the splendour of the house, writes ...

    Article : 351 words
  13. Leander Stubbs.

    Leander Stubbs was the athletic and handsome pill moulder of the only drug store in the romantic village of Squawkickin. Leander was a masher, tis true, but ...

    Article : 371 words
  14. Fiddle and Harp Strings.

    The manufacture of strings for musical instruments has been carried on from time immemorial in some of the small villages in the Abruzzl. The Neapolitan ...

    Article : 236 words
  15. Canine Sagacity.

    It is a writer in the “ Philadelphia Times” who tells this story :— I called on a certain portrait painter in Indianapolis last week. ...

    Article : 253 words
  16. BUSINESS MAXIMS FOR BUSINESS MEN.

    1. After the feast the giver shakes in head. 2. The sleeping fox catches no poultry. 3. Creditors have excellent memories. ...

    Article : 225 words
  17. A Lightning Phonographer.

    Business Man:“Can you write shorthand?” Applicant: “Yes, sir.” “How many words a minute?” “I never counted em, but the other ...

    Article : 62 words
  18. A Japanese Ambition

    The Japanese seem determined (says the Indian “Engineer”) to deserve the name of the Britons of the East, not only on account of their prowess on land and ...

    Article : 163 words
  19. Two Sides of the Question.

    “Ah, my boy,” said little Willie Whackin’s father, “think of what a boy George Washington must have been to say, ‘Father, I cannot tell a he,’ after he ...

    Article : 67 words
  20. The Irish Soldier’s Evidence.

    An Irish soldier on sentry duty had orders to allow no one to smoke near his post. An officer with a lighted eigar approached, and Pat boldly challenged ...

    Article : 147 words
  21. A Courtly Subterfuge.

    Judge Jones was an American gentleman of the old school, and had been a gallant in his day. Old age did not find him forgetful of his gallantry, but with ...

    Article : 124 words
  22. The New Woman.

    “I suppose the ‘new woman’ epidemic hasn’t struck your neighbourhood yet?” asked the merchant. Mr. Hayes Seed scratched his chin a minute, deep down ...

    Article : 80 words
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