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  2. THE BAZAAR CAKE.

    “Do please send us something for the bazaar.” Anyone who has officiated at the cake-stall of a bazaar will tell you that small cakes ...

    Article : 578 words
  3. CAPTURED TWICE IN ONE DAY.

    Those with practical experience will readily agree it is very interesting to fall into the enemy's hands in war time, but very few would relish ...

    Article : 846 words
  4. TRIFLES THAT RUIN HOMES.

    To the long list of home-breakers must now be added vegetarianism. A tearful wife explained in court the other day that the cause of all her ...

    Article : 495 words
  5. The Merafield Mystery

    I could get nothing more out of Greene. His advice to drop the inquiry was all very well, but many points in it were so obscure that I ...

    Article : 4,185 words
  6. IN A PRAIRIE CYCLONE.

    Waves of gold as far as the eye could see across the prairie. The wheat was ready for harvest. For days there had been a pitiless sun in ...

    Article : 559 words
  7. JACK FROST.

    The Frost peeped forth one still clear night And whispered, “Now I shall be out of sight. ...

    Article : 571 words
  8. EDISON’S HIGH KICK.

    His eighty-first birthday, which he celebrated recently, found Thomas Alva Edison, we are assured, full of “pep” and ideas, and conscious of ...

    Article : 138 words
  9. A BAD SCARE.

    I am a business man. On a certain day in November pre-war business brought me unexpectedly to the city of G—. There I found—unexpectedly ...

    Article : 418 words
  10. AN ADVENTURE IN A COAL CELLAR.

    A coal cellar seems to be the last place where one would think of meeting with adventure, but the fact remains, however, that adventure is ...

    Article : 668 words
  11. THE ROD AND THE CHILD.

    Commenting on the suggestion made by the chief constable of Kirkenhead, that Parliament might allow chief officers of police to birch boys under ...

    Article : 170 words
  12. WITH A VARIATION.

    “Do you remember, dear,” he asked, as they sat down on one of the rustic seats in the park, "that I cut our initials on this tree behind us three or ...

    Article : 78 words
  13. STEADY.

    The major was approached by a young man who had obviously been in the service just long enough to draw his uniform. The youth failed ...

    Article : 105 words
  14. WITH FLYING COLORS.

    A football player desired the join the staff of a technical college connected with one of the Services. The college wished to have him for his ...

    Article : 102 words
  15. HARD TO SATISFY.

    An irascible farmer, sitting down to his breakfast, began by grumbling: “Maria, this porridge is cold.” His long-suffering wife took no ...

    Article : 74 words
  16. THE INGENIOUS EXCUSE.

    Here are two examples of the ingenious excuse, says the “Morning Post.” A military correspondent tells how, when on coast defence duty ...

    Article : 121 words
  17. SOMEBODY SCORED.

    “I hear you lent Biggs five shillings last night,” said Tompkins. “True,” replied Simmons, “but it was only an investment. It will come ...

    Article : 171 words
  18. COMPROMISE.

    The golf match was in full swing, and so was the club of an English player, for in making a particularly hard drive he sent his ball straight ...

    Article : 129 words
  19. IMPRESSING HIM.

    An Englishman was showing his Yankee friend round London. The Yankee carefully hid his enthusiasm and talked of America. Suddenly he ...

    Article : 56 words
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