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  2. J. AND H. ; OR RURAL COURTSHIP.

    WELL ! if you really want me to tell you how it came about that Susan and me came to have an understanding, I suppose I must give you the story. Not as ...

    Article : 1,828 words
  3. CYCLING AND VITALITY.

    IT was recently announced in the daily papers that a rider had, on an "ordinary bicycle," covered 413 miles in twenty-four hours. The feat seems ...

    Article : 918 words
  4. A SENSATIONAL EPISODE.

    THE Colonel got back from Europe the other day. He had not been seen at his favourite table in his chosen restaurant for so long a time that when three or four ...

    Article : 1,414 words
  5. A NIGHT WITH A JURY.

    I HAD never sat on a jury before, and I rather liked it -- for a time. I am not aware that our appearance was remarkable. We resembled any other jury ...

    Article : 1,048 words
  6. MATRIMONIAL MISHAPS.

    WHAT is this I see in the paper about your spending a month in Long Island, in Florida?" asked Mrs. Wilson, just after supper, as she raised her eyes from the ...

    Article : 1,476 words
  7. AN AWKWARD FIX.

    IT is a good many years ago now since it happened, but I cannot think of it even at this lapse of time without emotion. I did not follow the Meetings in those days so ...

    Article : 1,260 words
  8. WOMEN WHO WOULD BE MEN.

    ON this subject "Clara Belle" writes in Modern Society: -- "Women have always had an itching to get into men's clothes. I don't mean simply ...

    Article : 479 words
  9. THE GOOD OLD BACHELOR.

    THE bachelor question is many-lived. As often as you relieve it, just as often will it "come up smiling" when you least expect it. We often ask which is the happier state ...

    Article : 428 words
  10. THE TRUE STORY OF DICK TURPIN.

    To the youthful mind the exploits of highwaymen have always had a peculiar charm. This is due possibly to the exceedingly pleasant manner romance writers have of ...

    Article : 521 words
  11. A GIRL'S ESSAY ON BOYS.

    AT a recent Board School examination for girls, one of the tasks was an essay on boys, and this was one of the compositions just as it was handed in by a girl of 12: -- "The ...

    Article : 147 words
  12. PARTED.

    IN a quiet dell so shady, All among the larch and fir, There I met a little lady, And was soon engaged to her. ...

    Article : 156 words
  13. COULDN'T UNDERSTAND IT.

    A SHORT time ago a lad was returning from Manchester with a milk-cart, when he happened to meet a clergyman, who stopped him and asked him if he could show him the ...

    Article : 170 words
  14. THE AGE OF PROGRESS.

    ZERLINDA loved a troubadour, Who carried her off with a coach and four. Crack went the whip, they galloped fast; But Linda's pa caught up, at last, ...

    Article : 92 words
  15. NOW WE ARE STRAIGHT.

    ONE day a traveller called at a certain hotel and ordered some dinner. The bill came to one shilling. The traveller wrote on the wall, "I owe you one shilling." ...

    Article : 83 words
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