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  2. HIS LAST SHOT.

    Old Joe was talking as usual for the edification of the company at the "Old Oak Tree," and football experiences became the pet theme. ...

    Article : 128 words
  3. THE MACHINERY TRAVELLER

    The machinery traveller pulls up at the gate of a farm and walks in to receive none too warm a welcome from the suspicious farmer. The farmer ...

    Article : 1,127 words
  4. WISDOM FOR WIVES.

    Advice to housewives by a professor on such humble subjects as cooking pots and dish-washing was a feature of a meeting of the Electrical ...

    Article : 362 words
  5. WHY HE HURRIED.

    The laziest man in the village was running hard. On he ran until— crash!—he arrived at the corner, and nearly knocked over the vicar. ...

    Article : 82 words
  6. YOUNG MAN GET A GIRL!

    In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. But how many young men really know how to make love? ...

    Article : 683 words
  7. THE VALUE OF THE TOOTHBRUSH.

    Sir George Newman, who may be termed the Doctor of the Nation, is of opinion that half the iils that flesh is heir to, such, for example as ...

    Article : 248 words
  8. TO CHANGE SOUTH AFRICA’S CLIMATE.

    Rainfall over the whole of the central portion of the Union of South Africa is steadily decreasing year by year, and if this goes on at the ...

    Article : 715 words
  9. BOOKED UP.

    "Has your husband an old suit that he ain’t usin’, ma’am?" asked the tramp, respectfully removing from his head the shapeless remnant of a hat. ...

    Article : 92 words
  10. THE WRONG SLOT.

    The farmer had come to the city to enjoy himself, and he found plenty of amusement everywhere. A pennyin-the-slot-machine pleased him ...

    Article : 143 words
  11. IN LUCK.

    There was a shivering sound of breaking glass heard in the drawingroom. "James! Have you broken another goblet?" ...

    Article : 692 words
  12. AUNT MARIA SAYS—

    They've goin' to [?]ave a grand picture at our cinema soon. Leastways they keep on remindin’ us about It. They’re been putting it on the boards ...

    Article : 144 words
  13. WHY HE BURST.

    "James," said his mother, "you eat and eat and never seem satisfied. Here is one more helping of pudding, but it must be the last." ...

    Article : 106 words
  14. FROM BAD TO WORSE.

    The minister of a Scottish parish, whose estimate of himself was not of the lowest, had accepted a call to a wider sphere, and was paying a few ...

    Article : 589 words
  15. HIS NEW SPOT.

    He was a most enthusiastic angler, and thought he would seek a new neighborhood in which to make some record catches. After tramping about ...

    Article : 153 words
  16. RATHER TOO HASTY.

    "Now," here is a book!" exclaimed the seedy man as he dashed into the banker’s private office. "Don’t want any books," grunted the ...

    Article : 101 words
  17. THE TUNE CHANGED.

    With haggard face the man rushed up to the street piper who was murdering Scottish airs at the street corner. ...

    Article : 132 words
  18. ONE AGAINST THE JUDGE.

    The lawyer was Scotch, and the judge was English. The case in argument concerned certain water rights, and the lawyer had frequently to use ...

    Article : 384 words
  19. A RARE SIGHT.

    An obscure poet took his wife and his eight children to the Zoo. The children had made repeated demands to see the elk, so the poet pleaded ...

    Article : 125 words
  20. TO ITS FULL VALUE.

    Mr. Green had been paying twenty shillings a week for board; his appetite constantly increased. Finally his landlady saw that she must either ...

    Article : 254 words
  21. IN A QUANDARY.

    A good story is being told in a country town in connection with a silver cup presented by a local magnate to the first baby born on a particular ...

    Article : 274 words
  22. HUBBY’S PRESENT.

    Mrs. Greens met a friend and, in the course of conversation, remarked: "My husband’s birthday comes next week." ...

    Article : 229 words
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