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  2. From Post to Finish.*

    MR. DURNFORD was a man who understood the art of dining. He was fastidious in all his tastes, and in none more so than in the pleasures of the table. He had various ...

    Article : 2,269 words
  3. An Inquisitive Parent.

    MR. WILBERFORCE is not a bad man in his way, but he was sorely put out the other morning at breakfast. He had lent a neighbour most of his and when he entered ...

    Article : 138 words
  4. Two Pairs of Pants.

    SIBLEY and Ramsey were the gubernatorial candidates in Minnesota in 1858, and party feeling ran high—that is, votes became high, because they were mighty scarce. The partisans ...

    Article : 489 words
  5. Flotsam and Jetsam.

    THE manager sat in his low-backed chair, Saccharometer, juice, and sugar were there; His checks were sunk, and his eyes were like owls'; ...

    Article : 330 words
  6. Facts and Fancies.

    A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.—HUDIBRAS. "WHY was Noah the best broker of ancient times?" He could float more stock than any other ...

    Article : 1,001 words
  7. The Truth about the Cherry Tree.

    "GEORGE," said his father, with countenance more in sorrow than in anger, "George, some one has cut down my favourite cherry tree; do you know anything about it?" ...

    Article : 1,111 words
  8. Summer Friends in Arkansas.

    SEVERAL weeks ago, while Judge Gaplin was out on a fishing excursion, he took shelter, during a rainstorm, in the house of old Andy Spillers. The old man, aware of his guest's ...

    Article : 579 words
  9. "Put that in your Pipe."

    [Professor Blackie says if all people would sing Scotch songs, as he does, instead of smoking "what they call tobacco," their souls would become "singing birds," and the "Devil wouldn't ...

    Article : 93 words
  10. The Approaching Humorist.

    THE following letter has been received by me, and, as it incloses no unsmirched postage-stamp to insure a private reply, I take great pleasure in answering it through the columns ...

    Article : 701 words
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