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  2. In Lighter Vein

    Little Tobias had been told, with sundry sound slaps, that he was on no account to fight. So when he came in from school one day with, metaphorically ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 95 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 478 words
  4. IT WAS THE ECHO.

    He had not been getting on very well, and his drive from the third had landed in a deep bunker. He disappeared down the hole in pursuit of the ball, and his ...

    Article : 116 words
  5. INCOMPATIBILITY.

    A young man named Older knew an old man named Younger. Old man Younger had a son younger than Older, and another Younger older. ...

    Article : 92 words
  6. CIRCUMSTANCES.

    "I am sensible of the honor you do me, Mr. Mitchell; in the proposal of marriage you have just made," said the young lady, with a slight curl of the lip, ...

    Article : 62 words
  7. A USEFUL SUBJECT.

    He was eaten up with a mistaken consciousness of his own importance, and when he was making his great speech in the Muddleoombe Mock Parliament he ...

    Article : 101 words
  8. HIS UNDERSTUDY.

    A benevolent old gentleman got into a tram, and sat down opposite a nice, little, round-eyed, who stared at him uncompromisingly. The old gentleman ...

    Article : 93 words
  9. TIME TO LEAVE.

    In the same compartment as a well-known comedian was one of those nervous old ladies who travel in fear of collisions. ...

    Article : 94 words
  10. HIS CHOICE.

    Magistrate: "You can take your choice --twenty-one shillings or ten days." Prisoner (still in a foggy condition): "I'll take the money, your Worship." ...

    Article : 25 words
  11. THE LAST WORD.

    The sweet young thing thought she was making a huge success. "There is one thing I can't understand--" he started to say. ...

    Article : 65 words
  12. REPENT AT LEISURE.

    "Who can tell me the meaning of leisure?" asked the teacher. "Please, miss, it's a place where married people repent," replied the youthful ...

    Article : 29 words
  13. QUESTION OF MONEY.

    "Trixie," queried the teacher of the juvenile class, "what is the difference between electricity and lightning?" "You don't have to pay nothing for ...

    Article : 27 words
  14. QUITE A DIFFERENT THING.

    Flushed and excited, she bounced into the room where her spouse sat and flopped into a chair facing him. "O'Donohoe," she demanded, "would ...

    Article : 121 words
  15. ONLY THE ORDINARY KIND.

    "Have you any alarm clocks?" inquired the customer. "What I want is one that will arouse the girl without waking the whole family." ...

    Article : 64 words
  16. SOME TRAVELLER.

    Sarah: "She says she's going to travel hundreds of miles on her honeymoon." Jane: "That's easy for 'er; 'er chap runs a merry-go-round." ...

    Article : 25 words
  17. HOURS NUMBERED.

    Laceman wanted to buy a clock-- that is, a reliable clock--and he made the shopman show him a good many before he decided on one. ...

    Article : 63 words
  18. ATTACHMENT NOT THE SAME.

    "Got rid of chickens in favor, of a garden--eh?" "Yes: we used to, get so attached to our fowls that we couldn't eat them. You ...

    Article : 40 words
  19. COLD WATER.

    A lady warned her new gardener that her husband had an irritating habit of disparaging everything he saw in the greenhouse, and of ordering with ...

    Article : 118 words
  20. NEATLY EXPRESSED.

    She: "Sir, I understand you said I had a face that would stop & clock." He: "So I did. Any well- regulated clock would pause and hold up its hands ...

    Article : 42 words
  21. NO ARTIST.

    "Well, Mary, what did you think of the pictures at the exhibition?" "Oh, sir, there was a picture called, 'Two Dogs after Landseer,' but I looked ...

    Article : 42 words
  22. TIME TO SPARE.

    "Can't you stay a little while longer?" asked the prisoner, as his kind friend was about to leave. "No, Bob, I haven't time to-day." ...

    Article : 48 words
  23. SOME AMUSEMENT.

    "What's or favorite amusement?" "Telling other people how ill she is." ...

    Article : 16 words
  24. SPLENDID SARCASM.

    Customer (looking at soiled bill of fare): "That's" a splendid idea, waiter. Samples of the different dishes glued to the menu!" ...

    Article : 31 words
  25. UNRELIABLE INFORMATION.

    Scene: Practice by mounted recruits at cavalry depot. A horse bolts and throws its rider. A woman hears that it is her son, and she rushes to the scene. ...

    Article : 77 words
  26. HIS QUESTION.

    The merchant was turning down a young applicant on the grounds that he had only married men in his business. "Have you a daughter, by any chance?" ...

    Article : 32 words
  27. OFTEN ENOUGH.

    Husband: "You never kiss me except when you want money." Wife: "Well, isn't that often enough?"' ...

    Article : 20 words
  28. COULDN'T DO IT JUSTICE.

    The youngsters came trooping in from the party, and mother wanted to hear all about it All the boys were loud in their praises of the food that had been ...

    Article : 120 words
  29. SOME QUESTION.

    "Anything I can do for you?" asked a surgeon, as he passed the bed of a smiling but badly-Wounded soldier. "Yes, doctor; perhaps you can tell me' ...

    Article : 101 words
  30. WAS GETTING UNDER COVER.

    Mrs. Simpson: "Yes, I heard a noise, and I got up, and saw a man's legs sticking out from under the bed." Mrs. Johnson: "Mercy, the burglar's?" ...

    Article : 47 words
  31. A GREAT JOKE.

    "That was a capital joke you told me last week. I was laughing over it yesterday." So soon?" ...

    Article : 28 words
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