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  2. LISTENING-IN.

    Tourist: "To what do you attribute your great ago?" Oldest Inhabitant: "I can't soy yet, sir. There be several o' them patent medicine companies ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 640 words
  3. DIET

    "This writer says," remarked the boarder will the newspaper, "that one's disposition depen is upon what one eats." ...

    Article : 467 words
  4. This is WHERE WE SMILE

    Neighbour's Little Girl--"When did you get back, Mrs. Smith? Bid you have a good time?" Mrs. Smith--"I haven't been away, my ...

    Article : 52 words
  5. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,073 words
  6. IN THE SMOKER

    Mr. Menu was well named. He was about the most miserly man in the city. One day he was out looking around the shops--his favourite ...

    Article : 142 words
  7. A DEFINITION.

    "Pa." said little Benjamin, "what is the difference between a magnet and a magnato. "A magnet, my son, in a metallic ...

    Article : 50 words
  8. DAD'S CONCERN.

    This is a true fairy story. Once upon a time there was a young man named George, and he was the son of a farmer. Now, one morning ...

    Article : 143 words
  9. NO NEED TO ASK.

    Kirsty M'Suecker, a regular visitor in the doctors room, started on a long story of her aflictions. The medical man ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 99 words
  10. THE ALTOIST.

    The vicar's daughter was very enthusiastic and appreciative about the new curate and when she called on an old lady of nearly eighty for afternoon tea, ...

    Article : 102 words
  11. FOOLED.

    Shortly after 2 o'clock one morning a doctor drove four miles in answer to a telephone call. On his arrival the man who had summoned him said: ...

    Article : 125 words
  12. HE KNEW.

    The clergyman loaned' back in his chair after supper. It was Sunday evening--the time when all preachers heave thankful sighs that their most strenuous ...

    Article : 88 words
  13. COMING SOON.

    The work of the next couple of generations is all cut out for them," said the youth with the shell-rimmed Spectacles, and it won't be a matter of trade or ...

    Article : 489 words
  14. CAUTIOUS.

    Word had been received by the inspector of the electric-light system that an overhead wire had fallen in a crowded street. The inspector betook ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 130 words
  15. COME AND SEE.

    Young husband--"We are just at my house; will you come in and have a bit of dinner?" Friend (hesitating)--"But your wife." ...

    Article : 58 words
  16. DIFFICULT TO PLEASE.

    A Lancashire man was taken by his friend, who owned, horses, to the races for the first time. The friend had a "certainty" running ...

    Article : 91 words
  17. PROBLEM OF A VENUS.

    A small boy, the heir of his father who has great possessions, was observed to be regarding," with a puzzled look, the statue of a Venus in the ancestral ...

    Article : 71 words
  18. HIS ARM MUST HAVE BEEN TIRED!

    The Colonel: "The steering gear scorns confoundedly stiff--I will investigate." His daughter: "I can't understand it, Daddy. When Bobble drove me back from Brighton last night he steered with one hand all the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 55 words
  19. ONLY ONCE.

    While touring in the north of Scotland an Englishman walked into a wayside churchyard, where he found a gravedigger at his work. ...

    Article : 85 words
  20. A RUN FOR HIS MONEY

    On one occasion as the composer Gluck was passing along the Rue Saint-Honore in Paris, he accidentally broke a pane of glass in a shop-window, the value ...

    Article : 88 words
  21. HIS CHARACTER.

    "Well," said a city merchant in ans-answer to an inquiry as to the character of an office-boy who had just left him, "he's one of those 'push and go' boys." ...

    Article : 64 words
  22. NOT WORTH WHILE.

    After a lot of trouble the inhabitants of a little village were given a post-office. For a time their pride in their acquisition was intense, then complaints began to ...

    Article : 114 words
  23. MISUNDERSTOOD.

    He was a very young youth indeed. And, also, be was in love. These two things are probably among the most distressing ailments in the world. He ...

    Article : 119 words
  24. MORE EXPERIENCE.

    One day an Irishman was taking home a goose," but on the way called for a drink at a public-house, placing the bird on a seat near by. When he was ready ...

    Article : 91 words
  25. TO THE POINT.

    A Scottish farmer, being elected to the School Board, visited the village school and tested the intelligence, of the class by the question-- ...

    Article : 61 words
  26. ANTICIPATION.

    Two men met in the street one day. "Hullo, Bill," said one. "I 'aven't seen you for weeks! What's wrong? You're looking pretty' seedy. Been ...

    Article : 90 words
  27. THE TAR BURGLAR.

    One case comes to my mind of a country house burglary. Hounds, which arrived several hours after the offence had been ...

    Article : 274 words
  28. ANOTHER.

    Pat and Miko went for a walk. Pat, who was the shorter of the two, could not keep up with Mike's long strides, and, after a while, began to get very ...

    Article : 81 words
  29. Advertising

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    Advertising : 98 words
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