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  2. Poetry and Trifles.

    Don't go to the theatre, lecture or halt, But stay in your room to-night : Deny yourself to the friends that call, And a good long letter write— ...

    Article : 970 words
  3. CHAPTER V.—"BREAKERS AHEAD?"

    "So here you are at last," said Harry Barkstead, as David and Elmira pushed back the gate and entered Cupid's Garden. "And you, too!" exclaimed Elmira, "well ...

    Article : 1,332 words
  4. STORY OF A POULTICE.

    Family discipline is still maintained in some American families, as, of course, it ought to be in all. A small boy got a silver in his foot, and his mother expressed her intention of ...

    Article : 272 words
  5. HOW HE GOT A VOTE.

    When Colonel Van Week was putting ap for election there was an Irishman who steadfastly refused to give the old soldier any encouragement. The Colonel was greatly ...

    Article : 156 words
  6. A KISS UNDER FALSE PRETENCE.

    A bright, lovely Chicago travelling man named Thompson got a kiss in an interesting manner. He was an old friend of his best friend's wife and just for fun asked her for a ...

    Article : 429 words
  7. THE WRONG GENDER.

    A young curate, who had recently taken orders, was appointed to a church where the vicar was extremely energetic, so much so that when he had been there six months ...

    Article : 401 words
  8. THE WAY HE BODE.

    The character of the old Illinois Courts, in which Abraham Lincoln practised, was very primitive (says a writer in the Century). In one case a livery-stable horse had died soon ...

    Article : 248 words
  9. CATCHING A TARTAR.

    An inquisitive French Bishop once caught a tartar in the person of the Duke of Roquelaire. The latter, pasking in haste through Lyons, was bailed by the Bishop with— ...

    Article : 116 words
  10. MISS JANE.

    She was a bright-faced, pink-cheeked little girl of four years or thereabouts, standing on the street corner with a doll stock head foremost under one arm and a big red apple in ...

    Article : 335 words
  11. THE "PRUSSIAN TRICK."

    Like the Eastern Caliph Haroun Alraschild, Frederick the Great was fond of walking about his capital unattended. He usually wore a shabby uniform and the large military clock ...

    Article : 466 words
  12. MYSTERIES OF THE PRESENT AND FUTURE.

    In one of our Courts recently a nine-year-old boy was placed on the witness-stand, but before he began to testify the defendant's counsel objected and would not allow him to ...

    Article : 174 words
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