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  2. A SHATTERED ILLUSION.

    "Oh, Charles," said the sweet girls, "you have had your hair cut!" Charles admitted the undeniable fact and tried to turn the conversation into ...

    Article : 132 words
  3. NO SUCH LUCK.

    The thin, pale man sighed. "Why," asked his friend, "are you so sad ?" "Alas!" he answered, "the sea is the ...

    Article : 56 words
  4. MATTER OF CHANGE.

    It is related by a great divine that at a meeting that at a once attended, a member in poor circumstances led in prayer, which consisted chiefly of ...

    Article : 85 words
  5. SHE TALKED TOO WELL.

    Sometimes there is a drop of regret in the cup of joy served by fate to the husband of a brilliant talker. "I should think it would be a privilege to sit at the ...

    Article : 130 words
  6. HE GAVE IT UP.

    A case for slander was being tried. The principal witness was an impetuous old German woman. She talked so fast that the judge was tumble to follow her ...

    Article : 108 words
  7. AWKWARDLY PUT.

    They certainly were rather a hopeless lot of recruits, and their stupidity as they bundled through their drill routed the ire of the captain in charge. ...

    Article : 106 words
  8. THERE'S CRICKET IN THE AIR.

    Bring my trusty Surrey "driver" And remove the winter dirt. Get my average reviver. And my flannels breeks, and shirt. ...

    Article : 701 words
  9. MISSING PAWN.

    Two chess players were having a game in a cafe, when, one of them, suddenly starting up from his seat in a passion, exclaimed: ...

    Article : 105 words
  10. HOPELESS WISH.

    One day this spring some poor children were permitted to go over a fine stock farm, near a city, conducted as a hobby by a wealthy professional man, and when ...

    Article : 91 words
  11. CLOTHES AND THE MAN.

    An old parish clerk was asked the other day how he liked the new rector. "Oh, he'd a good man. I believe ; but I would rather have the old rector any ...

    Article : 113 words
  12. HE COULDNT THINK.

    "There's eight nations represented to this ward of ours," said Mr. Halloran, the New Yorker, to his wife on his return from a political meeting. He began to ...

    Article : 97 words
  13. APPEALED TO THE POLICE.

    Temmmy's new nurse was a "bear." She made him keys off the grass and out of the puddles, and would nat let him leave her for an instant. ...

    Article : 137 words
  14. OLD MAN AND NEW METHODS.

    An old fisherman was rowing in his boat one day when a motor canoe sprang a leak near him, and immediately sank. To the indignation of the canoe's ...

    Article : 112 words
  15. POETRY AND TRIFLES.

    These eyes of thine are sapphires sweet. Blue as the skies above; Thrice lucky is the man they greet With tender looks of love. ...

    Article : 117 words
  16. AN APT QUOTATION.

    A lovely woman at a pardon party found herself bored by the attentions of a fresh young man, the son of a rich mining speculator. ...

    Article : 159 words
  17. PAT IN A PICKLE.

    When Pat decided to set up as a cabby, he bought an old cavalry horse, and be readied home, feelig proud, bedad! But then be found be couldn't make it budge: ...

    Article : 188 words
  18. FIDELE.

    Fear no more the heat of the sun. Nor the furious winter's rages: Thou thy worldly task hast done. Home are gone and taken thy wages; ...

    Article : 123 words
  19. HE COULDNT STAND IT.

    A muscular Irishman strolled into the examination room where candidate for the police force are put to a physical test. ...

    Article : 167 words
  20. WHAT BABY WANTED.

    "It isn't a bit of use," cried the young man, distractedly, as he paced the room with the crying infant in his arms; "there is something alarming the matter with ...

    Article : 160 words
  21. QUESTIONS FOR THE BIRD OF PARADISE.

    Bright bird, what scenes are thine eyes discerning: The flash and the gleam of the [?]earlet worn; ...

    Article : 188 words
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