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  2. A SUDDEN SHOWER.

    Was that a top at the studio door? Cloud Li[?]e glanced impatiently round from his easel, and fervently hoped it was not. He was just in the humour for working, after spending ...

    Article : 2,829 words
  3. MRS. MAX’S VIEWS ON FLIRTING.

    "Rcally, Major, if I had any influence with the government—what do you say, the administration?—well, with the administration, I should have that Bob Billings deprived of his ...

    Article : 2,030 words
  4. CHASED BY A SHARK.

    I have been in various parts of the globe: like Ulysaes, have seen many cities and peoples: and, like him, have been through many adventures. Amongst the last-named there in one ...

    Article : 1,122 words
  5. "THERE’S BLOOD ON THEM CARDS."

    "You see that big man?" said the Major. "Cannot well help it," I replied. "Ever see a bigger man?" inquired the Major. "Not outside of a menagerie," I said. ...

    Article : 1,914 words
  6. AN HEIRESS IN LOVE.

    "What do you think—of Jack Dermott?" Miss Georgina Poole had dismissed her maid. She asked the question of her cousin, Polly. Miss Georgina Poole was a great heiress. ...

    Article : 1,964 words
  7. A REVOLVING BISHOP.

    There is a good story told of Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, when he ruled the See of Oxford. It is said that this eloquent preacher was only once disconcerted,and it was upon this occasion ...

    Article : 369 words
  8. A BLACK EYE.

    Unfortunate, indeed, is the lot of the young man with a black eye. In addition to the fact that it is black and will prevent his appearance in respectable society for a time are the many ...

    Article : 685 words
  9. CANINE SAGACITY.

    Mr. A. E. Dowden, adds to the long list of instances of canine sagacity the following remarkable incident:—"My dog, an English wire-haired terrier, slipped out of the house ...

    Article : 409 words
  10. STAGE AND OTHER KISSES.

    Discussing the vexed question of the stage kiss a writer in the "Gentlewoman" says:—"To one person a kiss is an epoch; to another merely a bore. The first kiss of the lover is an ...

    Article : 466 words
  11. THE POLICEMEN LAUGHED.

    During the recent severe weather a crowd of people, among whom were two or three policemen, were congregated together watching a farmer roughing a horse, when up came a little ...

    Article : 107 words
  12. THERE ARE WOMEN.

    There are women who are comely, There are women who are homely— But be careful how the latter thing you say—There are women who are healthy, ...

    Article : 125 words
  13. AT A FRENCH RESTAURANT.

    The following key to a French bill of fare was composed by a young medical student who spent four hours in a restaurant before he got the dinner he wanted, and for which he had ...

    Article : 250 words
  14. PROOF POSITIVE.

    Stage Manager: "The audience is calling for the author." Manager; "All right. Go out and announce that he is in the audience somewhere, but you ...

    Article : 59 words
  15. NO MASHERS ALLOWED.

    Mr. Brandon Thomas tells to an interviewer an amusing story of a little thing that happened to him when in Toronto, playing in "The Pantomime Rehearsal" with Rosina Vokes:— ...

    Article : 155 words
  16. AN EXPERIENCED WOMAN.

    Mrs. Bright: My daughter tells me that you have become quite an adept in palmistry. Young Squeczem: Yes, I have studied it for some time. ...

    Article : 103 words
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