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  2. AN EASY TWENTY.

    Waley is a sporting publican of N.S.W., whose boast it is that the man who hopes to put anything over on him will have to be up with the very ...

    Article : 268 words
  3. UNFORTUNATE INVENTORS.

    The present era is undoubtedly a happy one for inventors and discoverers. Honours, fame, and fortune reward the genius which makes the name or a ...

    Article : 491 words
  4. ISLANDS OF DREAMS.

    The blase individual tired of the majestic beauty of mountain, cave and river should pack his trunks and join the steamer which runs to the New ...

    Article : 530 words
  5. THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR.

    Jack Blake slipped his feet into his slippers, doned his well-worn smoking jacket, and with a complacent sigh, abstracted his favorite briar from the ...

    Article : 630 words
  6. ALL ABOUT OURSELVES.

    Are we moving forward, are we always getting to know more about ourselves? Surely we are! But who is teaching us? ...

    Article : 630 words
  7. THE CHARLADY.

    Every second Tuesday my wife employs a charwoman. Every second Tuesday she comes running after me to the gate as I leave for the city, ...

    Article : 1,154 words
  8. HOME OF THE DISARMAMENT. CONFERENCE.

    What manner of place is this city—the most beautiful city of the United States—of which so much has been heard? Let an Australian just ...

    Article : 957 words
  9. NESBITT’S NEWEST NOVEL.

    Hobart may have brain when it comes to town-clerking, but as a writer of three-volume novels and 400-word sentences Sydney’s T. H. Nesbitt is IT. ...

    Article : 569 words
  10. WOMAN’S INFLUENCE IN THE HOME.

    Even under the most commonplace conditions almost all human faculties are called into play by the woman who is at the head of a household. She may ...

    Article : 211 words
  11. Saved.

    A shipwrecked missionary cast upon what he feared was a cannibal island, climbed up a tree every night, to be out of the way of any prowling supper ...

    Article : 79 words
  12. IN RETORT.

    A clergyman, while passing through a by-street, came upon a rough-looking and gigantic coalman, who was persuading his horse to move along more ...

    Article : 344 words
  13. Necessary Precautions.

    Johnston (to wife): "Well, Maria, I’m going to stay at home with you today and help you to tidy up the house. I’ll tack down the carpets and hang up ...

    Article : 191 words
  14. Some Shylock.

    Jones: "I asked Spinks for the loan of £5.” Smith: “Asked Spinks for a loan? Why, he would hardly tell you the ...

    Article : 30 words
  15. Bare Knees and Blushes.

    An absent-minded professor invited a number of learned Scotsmen to visit some interesting ruins in bis neighborhood, and to do honor to his guests he ...

    Article : 121 words
  16. Economy.

    Mistress (ringing the ’phone excitedly): “Hello! Is that the butcher? Well, don’t send the cat’s meat I ordered this morning. The dear thing ...

    Article : 30 words
  17. Caught Out.

    A small girl with her mother was watching two men at work in the Central Hall of the Law Courts. They were kneeling in the middle of the vast ...

    Article : 118 words
  18. The Kiss She Missed.

    It had been their first separation, and during one week the young husband had sent his dear little wife ten letters, fifteen picture postcards, and four ...

    Article : 244 words
  19. Very Nearly Right

    Two old school chums chanced to meet again, and spent an interesting hour exchanging reminiscences. "But, I say, old chap,” began one ...

    Article : 198 words
  20. Catching Up.

    Jorkins: "I suppose a fellow ought to have a good deal of money saved up before he thinks of marrying?” Dawkins: “Nonsense! I didn’t have ...

    Article : 161 words
  21. Lost Stolen or Strayed.

    “Have you lost anything, madam?" asked the polite shopwalker during the sale, addressing an austere-looking lady, who was evidently looking ...

    Article : 181 words
  22. All His Fault.

    To hear the well-known preacher quite a crowd had collected. And he was fully up to expectation, declaiming and orating loudly enough to ...

    Article : 107 words
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