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  2. Tales and Sketches.

    The same sweet summer's day that saw [?] Webb weigh anchor for his last voyage, saw Alan Keith and David his son [?] into the still waters of Wilderness Creek. ...

    Article : 4,646 words
  3. A FISH TALK.

    Mr. Jones kept a toy shop, and among various things sold fishing-rods. For the purpose of advertising them he had a large rod hanging outside, with an artificial fish at ...

    Article : 175 words
  4. HE WAS USEFUL.

    Little Tom: You are going with us to our pic-nic, aint you ? Young Squibbs: Yes, my dear child. Your sister honoured me with an invitation, ...

    Article : 121 words
  5. Poetry and Trifles.

    There be three hundred [?] ways and more Of speaking, but of weeping only one; And knowing way, the wide world [?] and [?], Is known by all, tho it is taught by none. ...

    Article : 805 words
  6. A LAUGHABLE EXPERIENCE.

    De. Take, the eminent psychologist, once had a laughable experience. A Scottish labourer was engaged in the grounds of the doctor's saylum, near ...

    Article : 135 words
  7. A SHARP LAD.

    The master of a school in a certain village bore the reputation of being a very clever calculator ; bat upon, woe occasion he almost forfeited bis reparation. ...

    Article : 230 words
  8. HE PLEADED FOR ANOTHER.

    "Mabel, " said Henry (and, in spite of his effort to control himself, his voice was tremulous as he spoke with the air of timid desperation with marks the elocution of a ...

    Article : 120 words
  9. HER REASON.

    "It can never be, Mr. Fish," she said trying to be firm, although the tears were welling up in her forget-me-not eyes. "Why not, [?]?" he asked, ...

    Article : 192 words
  10. A CERTAIN CATCH.

    " Walk up, walk up! Come and ate see the woman-fish—a fish that really walks and talks!" shouted a man outside a show. When the place was filled h entered and said, ...

    Article : 110 words
  11. SHE GATHERED HIM IN.

    " Have you ever experienced the Mr. M'Pelican," said the young lady softly, "that some great opportunity was within your grasp, but you had hardly the presence ...

    Article : 602 words
  12. UNCLE SILE'S CHICKENS.

    " Lor bress you, sah !" said the old darkey as he rested the sawbuck and rubbed the [?] joints of his bands, "I just always doted on chicken-meat, an' I neber done ...

    Article : 333 words
  13. AT THE COLONEL'S COST.

    Colonel Spelikins: "Now, Biffles, the next time you come into the smoking-room with your dress-coat on, we will cat the tails off. How do you think that ladies like to sit next ...

    Article : 130 words
  14. THE COLD TRUTH.

    Worse than all otter women [?] in the world in the woman who descends the stairs in front of you, leaving all her draperies, or any part of them, to trail behind her on the ...

    Article : 233 words
  15. SUPPLYING HIS WANTS.

    A short time ago a banker gave a calendar pedlar a florin to get rid of him. The pedlar, however, volunteered to leave a calender at the banker's house that evening. The banker ...

    Article : 228 words
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