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  2. THE KING'S MESSENGERS.

    Great care is taken in guarding a diplomatic secret. No Government secret; when first horn. is ever committed to paper, except on the rare ...

    Article : 486 words
  3. TOPSY-TURVEYDOM OF WAR.

    Every big war brings forth puzzles for public bodies, statesmen, and private people. But it is safe to say that there was never any war which ...

    Article : 1,364 words
  4. THE "TIMOROUS" MOUSE.

    One day during October, along with other men and women workers, I was digging up potatoes in a field in the went mainland of Orkney, when one ...

    Article : 266 words
  5. TO FIGHT U BOATS.

    For some time past the American Shipping Board has been gradually putting into effect, more new and drastic regulations affecting all ...

    Article : 241 words
  6. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    Two brothers, Angus and Duncan, bachelors, who worked a small croft, had the misfortune to lose by death their sister, who was also their ...

    Article : 143 words
  7. MY EYE !

    Since a certain little difference I had with one of those nasty neighbours "over the way" in 1914 my right eye twitches uncontrollably at ...

    Article : 944 words
  8. NO DANGER FOR HIM.

    The old salt who took parties out by the hour in his little cockleshellboat, had been much annoyed by the loud and fatuous remarks of 'Arry. ...

    Article : 140 words
  9. THE LOST CONVOY.

    Sir Eric Geddes, in the House of Commons, replied to the criticism that had been directed against the Navy on the question of the attack of ...

    Article : 690 words
  10. THE NELSON TOUCH.

    A thrilling story of dauntless heroism has just been revealed by the posthumous award of the Victoria Croos to Skipper Thomas Crisp, of ...

    Article : 629 words
  11. "COME DOWN, YOU YOUNG RASCAL!"

    Some time ago, a gentleman, whose fruit orchard had been systematically robbed, caught a boy up one of his trees. ...

    Article : 139 words
  12. KATTEGAT FIGHT

    Since the remarkable fight to a finish between H.M. Auxuliary cruiser Alcantara and the German raider Grief, the efforts of the enemy to ...

    Article : 558 words
  13. THE BABY IN THE TAXI.

    Mr. George Graves, the well-known comedian, tells a good story about a taxi-driver who had come to a standstill in the street, where there was ...

    Article : 195 words
  14. A PATRIOTIC PLUM PUDDING.

    A recipe for a sevenpenny patriotic plum pudding, which will be sufficient for six persons was given by Mrs. Pember Reeves at a demonstration at ...

    Article : 201 words
  15. HAD HIS DOUBTS.

    A farmer went into a store and asked the proprietor if he wanted to buy some fresh butter. The merchant told him that he would ask his wife ...

    Article : 136 words
  16. THE NAVAL PADRE.

    To the wardroom, the naval chaplain is always the "padre" and was so ages ago, before this term was adopted by the Army ; but to the ...

    Article : 263 words
  17. TOMMY SCORED.

    The teacher was explaining to the class the meaning of the word "axiom." "An axiom," she said, "is a self-evident fact or proposition. It ...

    Article : 127 words
  18. A LOST VOWEL.

    Dr. Barton, warden of Merton College, Oxford, was a character in his time. As he was a man of remarkable ...

    Article : 70 words
  19. HE NAMED THEM.

    "Occasionally," said the genial station official, as he seated himself beside the traveller, "there are some things which lead people to ...

    Article : 72 words
  20. CAPITA AND INTEREST.

    An interested visitor, who was making a call in the tenement district, rising, said : "Well my good woman I must go ...

    Article : 72 words
  21. NO POWER OF SELECTION.

    "My wife will know that I drank too much at the banquet." "Why, you are walking straight enough." ...

    Article : 55 words
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