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  2. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.

    "May I have a bath here ?" asked a traveller at the hotel office in Boston. "Well, not here," replied the young man, "but you may hire a room." ...

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  3. LET HER SOWN EAST.

    "Did you make those biscuits, my dear?" asked the young husband. "Yes, darling." "Well, I'd rather you would not make ...

    Article : 43 words
  4. THE FIRST OF THIS KIND.

    " And I can't lie on either side," wailed a legal patient, continuing symptoms of "Is it very serious, doctor ?" asked the ...

    Article : 53 words
  5. SOMETHING LEFT.

    A man had the misfortune to lose a leg in a railroad accident a few years ago and has to wear an artificial leg and foot. He Was met one day by an Irishman, who ...

    Article : 92 words
  6. THE FOLKS FROM MAINE.

    The Governor of Maine was at the school and was telling the pupils what the people of different States were called. "Now," he said, "the people from ...

    Article : 89 words
  7. QUITE A DIFFERENCE.

    Tommy : "Father, what is the difference between vision and sight ?" Tommy's Father: "Well, my son, you can flatter a girl by catting her a vision. ...

    Article : 36 words
  8. HIS MEMORY WAS ALL RIGHT.

    "Well, dear," announced her absent. minded husband when he comes home, "this time I did not forget to bring home my umbrella. See ?" ...

    Article : 48 words
  9. AN INHERITED TASTE.

    One evening at a club dinner the boys were jollying the fat man about his enormous appetite, but he kept "putting away, " undisturbed by the taunts. Finally, ...

    Article : 71 words
  10. ONLY THE ORDINARY KIND.

    After he had waited outside for ten minutes the door was opened on the chain and a woman's face appeared at the aperture. ...

    Article : 78 words
  11. WHAT IS A LAWYER

    "Father," asked the little son, "what is a lawyer ?" "A lawyer ? Well, my son, a lawyer is a man who sets men to strip for a fight ...

    Article : 40 words
  12. WHEN THE LAWYER LOST.

    "Now," said the lawyer in court, "William, look at the Judge and tell him who made you ?" William, who was considered pretty ...

    Article : 157 words
  13. SHE WAS BUSY ENOUGH.

    "Don't you know," said the policeman to the servant as she was dumping a pail of garoage in an open lot, "that what you are doing in against the law ?" ...

    Article : 56 words
  14. WAS HE TWO-FACED?

    Grandpa had been playing with little Jessie, and suggested that the should go for a walk with him. Jessie expressed her delighted approval of the plan. ...

    Article : 61 words
  15. SAVE TIME AND TROUBLE.

    "Shall I have your lunch brought up to you on deck here, dear ?" asked the husband of the seasick wife. " No, love ; have it thrown straight over. ...

    Article : 42 words
  16. RALLY'S METHOD.

    Old Aunt Sally, the highly esteemed cook in an American family, was frequently praised for her culinary skill, and, on one occasion, when a number of guests had ...

    Article : 114 words
  17. SHE COULDN'T.

    "I'm so proud of you, dear, that when everybody yelled at the mouse in the library this evening you sat absolutely still," said the husband with admiring ...

    Article : 57 words
  18. THE AGE LIMIT.

    Ellen Terry, the actress, was one day talking about the many women who asked her to help them get on the stage, when she said : " Every woman under thirty ...

    Article : 50 words
  19. WHY?

    Once at a dinner Henry Ward Beecher told his sister, Mrs. Stowe, that her " Uncle Tom's Cabin " had been translated into Italian by a monk ; that a letter ...

    Article : 82 words
  20. HAD IT ON HIS MIND.

    A clergyman tells the following story :— "A young man came up to me one day with the remark: 'Parson, I want you to marry me next Wednesday.' ...

    Article : 201 words
  21. WHEN A WIFE IS CRUEL.

    The husband rushed into the room where his wife was sitting : "My dear." said he excitedly, "guess what ! Intelligence has just reached me ...

    Article : 53 words
  22. WHAT BECAME OF THE GRASSHOPPERS.

    A live Grasshopper will eat a dead grasshopper. A Missouri farmer mixed Paris green and bran together and let a grasshopper eat it. It died, and 20 ate it up. ...

    Article : 74 words
  23. MISDIRECTED SYMPATHY.

    There were no vacant scats in the car, but as a comely looking woman entered an elderly man near the door attempted to rise. but she at once forced him back into ...

    Article : 150 words
  24. THE BABY GOT IT AIL RIGHT.

    The mistress of the house had been to a concert, and when she returned home she was met by the servant with : "Baby was very ill while you were cut, mum." ...

    Article : 108 words
  25. WASTED THE CREDIT DUE TO HER.

    A little girl was caught pulling another little girl's hair, and the mother was anxious to overlook it. so she said : "Don't you think, dear, it was naughty ...

    Article : 62 words
  26. HE WOULDN'T STAY BOUGHT.

    A guest was expected for dinner and Bobby had received 3d. as the price of his silence during the meal. He was as quiet is a mouse until, discovering that his ...

    Article : 67 words
  27. WHERE TAFT COULD BE FOUND.

    When President Taft was on his campaigning tour in the West, before he had been elected President, he stopped at the home of an old friend. It was a small ...

    Article : 117 words
  28. HE DIDN'T OBJECT.

    A man who was a bachelor was waiting for a train in the refreshment-room at a large station. it was presided over by a good-looking girl who happened to have ...

    Article : 79 words
  29. AT HIS CONVENIENCE.

    It was after the sermon, and, enthusiastic over what he had said, the preacher prayed and prayed and prayed some more. And gradually the congregation melted ...

    Article : 99 words
  30. WHAT SHE WAS DOING.

    "Now I wonder," thought Alphonso, the new husband who was a commercial traveller and away from home, "what Arabella is doing at this precise moment. I ...

    Article : 183 words
  31. DON QUIXOTE'S CHARGER.

    The management of the Theatre de la Gaite, Paris, where M. Massenet's new ope[?" "Done Quichotte," in being performed, are in a quandary concerning the ...

    Article : 200 words
  32. ANOTHER CHANCE.

    Percy Parking[?] []? and brushed the dust from his knees, [?], drawing himself up to his full height, he gased resentfully upon the form of Miss Murial ...

    Article : 130 words
  33. WHY HE COULD BEAT HIM.

    A man who was rather boastful of his game of golf visited a course he had not played for some time. -By-the-way, " he said to his caddie, "the ...

    Article : 118 words
  34. A NEW NAME.

    A young woman who had not particularly enjoyed her first trip; across the ocean was of a party discussing' the names chosen by the different steamship ...

    Article : 118 words
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  36. THE DIFFERENCE.

    Not long ago a pair of rooks built their nest in one of a cluster of trees in a gentleman's grounds. The owner was delighted at the prospect of having a rockery ...

    Article : 137 words
  37. STOOD ON THE RULE.

    A story is told of two old antagonists who met on a Scotch golf course every Saturday afternoon. On one occasion when they were all ...

    Article : 129 words
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