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  2. Classified Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,111 words
  3. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.

    Sandy (who is seeing a friend to the station): "Are ye going to have a drink?" Friend: "Well, I'll have just one glass." Sandy: "All richt, mon, I'll wait for ...

    Article : 39 words
  4. CONSISTENT.

    Fond Father: "I would like my son to have a prize of some kind." Master: "'What! Give a prize to your son? He persists in doing nothing." ...

    Article : 38 words
  5. PUTTING IT GENTLY.

    "I suppose" said the timid young man "when you recall what a handsome young fellow your first husband was y[?] wouldn't consider me for a minute? " ...

    Article : 43 words
  6. TRUST, INDEED.

    Pretty Flapper (doing the shopping for she first time): "I'll have that one please. Send it in time for lunch. Poultryman: "Trussed?" ...

    Article : 43 words
  7. LAST YEAR'S TROUBLE.

    Stranger: "Your town seems awful dead. Had a scourge of any kind ?" Citizen: "No." "No smallpox or yellow fever?" ...

    Article : 50 words
  8. INSTHRUMENTAL.

    "Have ye hea[?]d me daughter Mom sing lately?" asked Mr. Dugan. "Roth lately and early," said Mr. Hogan, " 'Tis the fine insthrumental ...

    Article : 59 words
  9. THE ONLY FEAR.

    During the furnace-cleaning operations at the steelworks the workmen occasionally had to walk over a plank suspended in the air: but whenever Pat had to cross ...

    Article : 72 words
  10. THE WRONG PATIENT.

    "Johnny." said his mother, "did the doctor call while I was out?" Tattle Johnny (stopping his play): "Yes. He felt my pulse and looked at ...

    Article : 71 words
  11. HIS FIRST OFFENCE.

    Some few years ago a travelling German tinker was arrested for stealing an umbrella from the lobby of a house, the door of which he had found open, and ...

    Article : 82 words
  12. POINTS OF RESEMBLANCE.

    Harold was a rackety young man, and kept Very late hours. He had joined Kitchener's army, and was going away to France. On bidding farewell to his ...

    Article : 104 words
  13. GONE WEST.

    Ryan used to be an assistant blaster it the quarries. On the day he disappeared he must have been standing on the ton of an exploding charge. as there was ...

    Article : 94 words
  14. TOO LATE.

    Breathless would-be passenger: "I say, porter, when does the half-past five train leave?" Porter: "Five thirty." ...

    Article : 77 words
  15. AN UNPROFITABLE RUN.

    "Your show was the worst we have ever bad here," said the manager of the Hickville Opera House as he handed the manager of the "Fly-by-Night" company ...

    Article : 97 words
  16. ABSENT-MINDED.

    Everything-in the professor's eyes—depended upon this last te[?]t His work of research for years in was now about to either prove a success or a failure. ...

    Article : 126 words
  17. A BARCASTIC WAITER.

    When the waiter saw the diner gather up all the change from the plate, leaving not so much as a threepenny bit behind, he bent down and said in a sorrowful ...

    Article : 126 words
  18. WHAT PUZZLED HIM.

    The soldier was telling the workman about a battle that he had once been 'in that had lasted from eight o'clock in the morning until seven o'clock at night ...

    Article : 119 words
  19. A KNOTTY POINT.

    "Good morning, parson." said Jenks, the village wag, meeting the parish rector one morning. "I want your advice on a c[?]n point concerning the marriage ...

    Article : 221 words
  20. HIS FULL ADDRESS.

    "What is your full address?" inquired the sergeant, who wan making out the papers of a rathor ragged and disreputable-looking recruit. ...

    Article : 213 words
  21. GOOD PRACTICE.

    It was their off-time from the pit. Both father and son anticipated a good afternoon's ratting. Incidentally, they wished to try the capabilities of a young ...

    Article : 151 words
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