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  2. FENTON FRIARS. CHAPTER 1.

    "Only three weeks, child; the new year will hardly here dawned upon us ere we must go. you have seen many happy Christanasses at the Friars, but this will be your last." ...

    Article : 3,075 words
  3. TREASURE 'NEATH THE SEA.

    Among the ships which have sunk with immense sums of value upon them is L'Orient, a French line-of-battle ship blown up by Nelson at the battle of the ...

    Article : 603 words
  4. A TREACHEROUS DEED.

    It was a terrible night, the sky was black with thunder and the lightening flshed almost inc[?]ntly. Guy Durling was burying home from the club, in hopes of avoiding the coming ...

    Article : 2,681 words
  5. WHY WE "CUT" ONE ANOTHER.

    That which surprises me most as I con[?]plate the many vagaries of mankind is the inconc[?]ivable frivolity with which we [?] unnecessary bitterness for ourselves and each ...

    Article : 303 words
  6. CHAPTER II.

    It was nearly neon of the second day after Eveline Madington's adventure when a light family carriage drove into the yard of the Nag's Head, the principal inn of Fenton. A ...

    Article : 1,316 words
  7. INTUITON.

    "Please sir, won't you give ten cents to a hungry man"? "Here's fire cents. Whisky isn't half as good for you as beer." ...

    Article : 28 words
  8. A COMMON CASE.

    Most persons will Agree with Charles Lamb that it is intolerable to pay for articles you have been used lo get fur nothing, Thus "when Adam laid out his first penny upon ...

    Article : 64 words
  9. CECH E'S SHAM SERGEANT.

    The other day, writes the Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telgraph," a [?] couple received from their daughter, who was serving as a lady'd maid here, a letter ...

    Article : 479 words
  10. AN AWKWARD SLIP.

    A poor woman of Shoreham, whose husband was going to sea, handed through the clcik to the parson this public prayer: "A man going to sea, his wife desires the ...

    Article : 92 words
  11. INSURED THE CAT.

    A certain lady, who wished to have some [?] at the expense of an agent who had of times solicited her to insure herself and family, asked him on one occasion if he would insure the cat ...

    Article : 219 words
  12. A LOST BANK NOTE.

    Of lost bank notes there are some entertaining narratives. Thus, in 1740, a Bank director, lost a £30,000 Bank-note, whieh he was persuaded had fallen from the chimney-piece of ...

    Article : 233 words
  13. HOW SHE KNKW HE WAS FAILING

    "You are not as strong as you used to be, John, said a fond wife to her husband: "I think it is about time you were getting s[?] insurance on your life." ...

    Article : 192 words
  14. A SLEEPY BISHOP.

    "E. C. N." adds another to the good stories of the [?] Rev. William Rogers. Going back to 1842.3, he says:—In those days the Bishop of London (Blomfield— rurely no mam over had ...

    Article : 154 words
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