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  2. THE STORYTELLER.

    M. Dupont: "Ah! so zis [?] leet[?] son? He looks to be similaire to you." Browne: "Yes, he is very much like me." ...

    Article : 56 words
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    Advertising : 266 words
  4. SCOTTISH AGAIN.

    Two men were watching the shipping going out of the port of London. "One of them is a P. & O.," said the man with the gl[?]see, "and the other ...

    Article : 87 words
  5. A HUMAN PHENOMENON.

    First Englishman: "Charlie, did you hear that joke about the Egyptian guide who showed some tourists two skulls of Cleopatra, one as a girl and one as a ...

    Article : 43 words
  6. A CURE FOR DESPONDENCY.

    Despondency is as fatal in a hospital as the use of the wrong anaesthetic. A cheerful patient, it is always insisted, is half-cured. This explains the notice in ...

    Article : 60 words
  7. THE END OF THE MANTLES.

    The foreman of a Lancashire mill instructed one of the hands to test the incandescent gas mantles in the weaving sheds and find out how many required ...

    Article : 78 words
  8. IN THE COURT.

    The Scottish land labourer makes a statement only after a considerable spiritual struggle. In Banff Sheriff Court the other day ...

    Article : 109 words
  9. GLINTS OF HUMOUR.

    "What would you like to be when you grow up, Johnny!" I think I'll be a soldier." "You might get killed." Who by?" "By the enemy, of ...

    Article : 600 words
  10. RATHER DIFFERENT.

    Mr. Gabbalot: "And so you are the lady who is giving my wife painting lessons? What sort of a pupil is she!" Miss Daubber:" Well, I find her very ...

    Article : 57 words
  11. WHY HE WAS THERE.

    Jones had been quite ill. One day the doctor called and found him in a bathtub. "Why, man are you crazy?" he said ...

    Article : 64 words
  12. IN HIS OWN OPINION.

    Here is a police court comedy. Several women had complained of the bad behavior of another of their sex, and the magistrate asked what sort of a ...

    Article : 72 words
  13. IN THE WRONG PLACE.

    A man who found early rising difficult bought an alarm clock. At six o'clock the next morning he was roused by a terrific knocking at his front door. ...

    Article : 87 words
  14. THAT'S ALL.

    Customer: "Waiter, I see that you have down on the wine list sherry at ten shillings a bottle and some at fifteen shillings. Pray, what is the difference ...

    Article : 71 words
  15. HER PROBLEM.

    A little girl had been eating rather heavily of pudding at supper time when her mother remarked—"If you have the nightmare you'll know it's the pudding ...

    Article : 73 words
  16. WHEN HE FOUND IT.

    Scringe was well known at the city restaurant for being the meanest man who had ever eaten a meal there. He never by any chance left a tip for the ...

    Article : 148 words
  17. THE WORST GRAMMAR.

    According to an American visitor to London, some of te worst grammatical mistakes on record have been perpetrated by Transatlantic statesmen. Mr. ...

    Article : 62 words
  18. RESTORED TO HER.

    Young Mrs. Wilkins, who was very proud of her cooking, once had occasion to send a boy on an [?] On his return she rewarded him with ...

    Article : 70 words
  19. IN VAIN.

    A lady had come to an artist's studio to look at his pictures. At the end of two hours she had made [?] that she would like to buy one though ...

    Article : 80 words
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