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  3. THE POSTMASTER'S PROMPTITUDE.

    The young postmaster of a village was hard at work in his office when a gentle tap was heard upon the door, and in stepped a blushing maiden of 16. with a ...

    Article : 229 words
  4. STRANGE INDEED.

    The other day an ingenuous-looking person called with the message to the housewife that her husband had sent him for his dress suit, which was to be ...

    Article : 143 words
  5. HUMOUR. SHY.

    Wallie: Next to woman, what is the most nervous thing you know? Willie (ungrammatically): Me—next to a woman. ...

    Article : 26 words
  6. THE IRREPRESSIBLE YOUNGSTER.

    The visiter had dropped in "just for a minute," but she remained about three hours after the minute was up. Little Freddie had formed several ...

    Article : 143 words
  7. PARLOUS TIMES.

    "A man has to draw it fine these days." "What do you mean?" "Staying ten minutes after office ...

    Article : 44 words
  8. COMFORTING.

    A medical journal says that man's little toe is disappearing. This is comforting news. There will he that much less for the conductor to tread on in a ...

    Article : 34 words
  9. YET OR AGAIN.

    Jones arrived home in the small hours of the morning, and was met with a verbal display of fireworks from Mrs. Jones. He dropped off to sleep, and ...

    Article : 70 words
  10. A QUEER WOMAN.

    Giles: My wife is a queer woman. Miles: Indeed! Giles: Yes. Why, when she, has occasion to drive a tack she uses a hammer ...

    Article : 34 words
  11. A STRANGE COINCIDENCE.

    The hall resounded to the gentle taptapping, of dancing-shoes upon the polished floors and the swash of silken skirts as ladies of various ages ...

    Article : 147 words
  12. A GREAT TRUTH.

    "You don't mean to say," said Whittler, "that you are going to the theatre with me with those clothes!" In truth Mrs. Whittler looked shabby ...

    Article : 329 words
  13. PLANKED.

    First Shad: You have broken up housekeeping? Second Shad: Yes; poor de[?] father went to board. ...

    Article : 21 words
  14. MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S HUMOUR.

    Mr. Chamberlain's reputation for humour is well known, but it is not often that he allows himself to make a puu. On one occasion, however, ...

    Article : 324 words
  15. THE KIND OF MAN HE WAS.

    Kind Lady; I hope your sick husband is cheerful, Mrs. Briggs. Poor Woman: Oh, yes, ma'am. He's one o' them homeoptimists. ...

    Article : 30 words
  16. TERRITORIAL TROUBLES.

    Recruit: Please, sergant, I've got a splinter in my 'and. Sergatit Instructor: Wot yer been doin'? Strokin' yer 'ead? ...

    Article : 23 words
  17. THE TRIUMPH OF DAISY.

    When Daisy was fifteen she called her father and mother into her dressing room. "Dear papa and mamma," she said, ...

    Article : 253 words
  18. NO CHANCE TO TALK.

    Mrs. Crimsonbeak: John, you yawned twice while we were calling on that lady. Mr. Crimsonbeak: Well, dear, you ...

    Article : 38 words
  19. STANLEY'S PLAN.

    When Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, landed in New Orleans, he was a barefooted boy. He applied at one of the newspaper offices for a job as ...

    Article : 188 words
  20. EXPERIENCED.

    "Never mind, dear," he said reassuringly, as she raised her sweet face from his shoulder, and they both saw the white blur on his coat; "it will all brush ...

    Article : 58 words
  21. WHEN THE DOGS GAVE OUT.

    Sir Leopold McClnitook, the recently deceased Arctic explorer, was once telling some of his adventures. "We certainly would have travelled ...

    Article : 69 words
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