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  2. Alotsam and Jetsam

    The Editor sat in the Editor's chair, His eyes wore bright with a fiendish" [?]re, And scattered around were tufts of hair Which he had rent in his anguish aire; ...

    Article : 289 words
  3. SAVED THE LADY.

    This story of an actual occurrence suffers because it is not told by a big, round-faced American who punctuates the whole narration with gurglings and chokings that threaten ...

    Article : 285 words
  4. THE CHRISTMAS TURKEY.

    The turkey seen the exe approach, Its mission doth divine, So first his heart is in his mouth And then in yours and mine. ...

    Article : 27 words
  5. THE PANG OF IT.

    "Why, dear, what's the matter with you? Bad news from your husband?" "Ob, worse than that. He writes me that be is longing for me and kisses my picture ...

    Article : 53 words
  6. ABOVE SUSPICION.

    A workhouse master did not want to he hard on an old man, and merely said,; "Smith, I have a suspicion you are a bit drank." Next time the man returned in such ...

    Article : 75 words
  7. A DISAPPOINTMENT.

    An old Scotswoman, who had put herself to considerable inconvenience and gone a good way to call on a sick friend, learned on arriving that the alarming symptoms had ...

    Article : 69 words
  8. DOZY: A SKETCH.

    A dorg yarn ? I don't mind. There was Dozy. E was a waif to begin with, an took a tremenius fancy to me. Wallaby Bill said: "Well-bred pup that If I hedn't ...

    Article : 1,344 words
  9. HER ECONOMY.

    Mrs. Faltte: "She isn't a very good manager is she? " Mrs. Finde: "No, indeed Why, she had to buy four extra turkeys so as not to waste the ...

    Article : 38 words
  10. A TERRIBLE DISASTER.

    One Saturday night, John, the beadle, who had been enjoying him a "not wisely, but too well," met the minister. Well, John," said the minister if' I see you ...

    Article : 75 words
  11. TRYING TO FIND OUT.

    "Tommie, is your mamma at home?" asked lady caller coming up the gravel walk. Tommie, who was peeping around the corner of the house, gave a guilty start and then ...

    Article : 52 words
  12. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.— HUDIBRAS One may be at peace with all mankind, but there is womankind to contend with. ...

    Article : 698 words
  13. HIS RULING PASSION.

    The wife of a farmer in Aberdeenshire having been long confined to bed before the time when her last moment approached, the husband, who was of a Very niggardly ...

    Article : 86 words
  14. THE JUDGE'S GIBBET.

    A carpenter having neglected to make a gibbet, which was ordered by the executioner, on the ground that he had not been paid for the last he had erected, gave so much offence ...

    Article : 97 words
  15. A SHAVER OF CORPSES.

    A man who has been on a lecture tour through the south tells this story on himself. He was late in arriving in one of the cities in which he was booked, and had but half an ...

    Article : 159 words
  16. A GRACEFUL SINNER.

    A little girl was just finishing her evening prayer when she abruptly asked her mother to "please leave the room." Her mother wanted to know why; but ...

    Article : 100 words
  17. BREAKING IT GENTLY.

    A ship returning from abroad some years ago had among the passengers a lady who had a pet parrot, which she had placed under the care of a sailor. ...

    Article : 138 words
  18. A MAN WHO COULD BE SPARED.

    Some years ago a battery of artillery was at big gun practice at Bermuda. One of the guns (a thirty-eight ton) was found to have a serious flaw. The officer in charge, not earing ...

    Article : 97 words
  19. A MIND READER.

    "He wor a great mon," said Patrick. "Who wor ?" asked Mrs. Murphy. "Th' mon I met to-night. Oi wor in Casey's when he said to me: ...

    Article : 153 words
  20. DIDN'T TEACH HIM THAT TRICK.

    "That's a worry knowing animal o' yours," said a Cockney gentleman to the keeper of an elephant. "Very," was the cool rejoinder. ...

    Article : 156 words
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