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  2. Light and Healthsome

    The softer sex—the dude. A great wag—A dog's tail. Off for the summer—flannels. Any man can make money—go. ...

    Article : 1,196 words
  3. How to Borrow Twenty Pounds.

    Sowerby, the actor, who was one of the most careless of mortals, frequently borrowed money, and although there vas not a particle of meanness in his composition he ...

    Article : 456 words
  4. Reckoned Up.

    "Do not plug him, papa?" Gwendolen Mahaffy said these words quickly, and with an earnestness that showed how her whole heart was wrapped ...

    Article : 825 words
  5. He was Devoted.

    It was his vacation, and they were seated under the branches of a great apple-tree, contented with each other's society, and silently communing with nature. His arm ...

    Article : 397 words
  6. A CORAL AND BELLS.

    "I say, that young 'un's clever." "Ain't she? Don't you know who she is?" "No. She's down on the as ' Little ...

    Article : 3,355 words
  7. An Active Initiation.

    In one of the South Australian: Masonic lodges recently, there was an unusually' active initiation ceremony. A candidate. was being hustled through the degrees in ...

    Article : 322 words
  8. Finance and Romance.

    Our financial manager came into the office the other day, and, with a guilty look on his face, said, "I have come to confess a crime." We looked at him sternly, and asked him ...

    Article : 303 words
  9. Took it for an Improver.

    A very pretty, modest young woman came shyly into a well-known sports depot' yesterdays. Approaching the shopman, she pointed to a wire mask used to prevent ...

    Article : 373 words
  10. An Amateur Farmer's Spring Poem.

    The yellow ochre blossoms now adorn The tall and stately oaks, And from her nest in yonder pumpkin tree The tuneful crocus croaks. ...

    Article : 145 words
  11. How He Saved a Bank.

    "I saved a bank from bursting once myself," remarked a seedy-looking old chap as he laid down a morning paper, which he had perused second-handed. "I admit I ain't ...

    Article : 270 words
  12. Awfully Mean.

    "Talk about mean follows," said a well-known city man to an acquaintance; "the meanest, contemptible dog I ever know is Dick Gushler. He got me to pay him three ...

    Article : 182 words
  13. An Astonished Cat.

    Gautier, the French writer, had a cat which slept on his bed at nights, on the arm of ,his chair during the daytime followed him when he walked, and always kept him ...

    Article : 211 words
  14. Slightly Fagged.

    Erwin was a happy, care-for-nothing Irish man—the raw material, with Western steam boat polish. While first mate of a steamer he was on watch on the boiler-deck one cold ...

    Article : 184 words
  15. Couldn't Stop it.

    When General S—, last summer, on a Western expedition passed Fort Berthcol, a number of Indians had gathered there to see him and make peace. They complained ...

    Article : 107 words
  16. No Sinecure.

    The position of head cook to an Eastern King must be no sinecure judging from the details 'given" by Oriental travellers. "The cook employed by King John of Abyssinia ...

    Article : 150 words
  17. Early Rising.

    Schoolmaster to precocious pupil: "Why is the sun brighter in summer than in winter?" Pupil: "Because it's warmer and it enjoys better health." ...

    Article : 45 words
  18. Didn't Inquire.

    "What made the horse kick you?" they asked of the gentleman who had been sent flying through the front window of a Bourke street shop. And he answered, "Do you ...

    Article : 45 words
  19. Scene : A Sunday School.

    Teacher—"Why did Lot's wife become a pillar of salt ?" Biggest boy in the class Because the world was in an awful pickle at the time." ...

    Article : 38 words
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