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  2. The Usual Thing.

    "You framed this bill, I believe?" said an eminent lawyer to a member of the Legislative Assembly. "I did." ...

    Article : 58 words
  3. Alotsam and Jetsam

    When stormclouds gather all across the blue, Till night is black, the wild winds sadly cry, (Then shriek through the lone bush as if ...

    Article : 236 words
  4. The National Fool.

    A good story is going the round which shows in what way the violent ebullitions and caprices of the German Emperor are regarded in his own country. An English ...

    Article : 174 words
  5. Only Two of Them.

    A well-known English Colonel, who took a small moor for the season, on the Twelfth duly went out by himself attended by a keeper. After walking hard for two or three ...

    Article : 74 words
  6. No Trouble at All.

    Dr. A. K. H. Boyd has retold an old story to a "British. Weekly" interviewer in these words :—" You may have heard of the young Scotch preacher in a border kirk, who ...

    Article : 102 words
  7. An Old Parish Account-book.

    Some of the greatest curiosities of English literature—if literature it can be called —lie hidden in ancient books of recordparish registers and the like. The "Kent ...

    Article : 1,193 words
  8. Providential Intervention.

    When Lord Dufferin was Viceroy of India he had a "shikarry," or sporting servant, whose duty was to attend the visitors at the Vice-regal Court on their shooting ...

    Article : 87 words
  9. Drawing a Badger.

    Bill Nye and a friend once visited a man of sport who had a badger that he was prepared to back for large sums on the statement that no dog of anybody's could take ...

    Article : 160 words
  10. An Odious Comarison.

    Mr. Corney Grain, narrating his early experiences as a social entertainer, used to describe an evening party given by the Dowager Duchess of S-, at which he was ...

    Article : 121 words
  11. Facts and Fancies.

    A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.—HUDIBRAS. "Dick has broken his promise." "Never mind, he'll make another just as good." ...

    Article : 640 words
  12. We Wonder!

    A member of a certain well-known club was going home very late a few nights ago, when he met a young man who had evidently been dining too freely. The clubman ...

    Article : 179 words
  13. Stuffed.

    A boy was engaged in nocturnal apple stealing a short time ago, and was observed by the owner of the fruit, who, unnoticed by the young robber, placed a large ...

    Article : 141 words
  14. A Modern Fable.

    One dark night an old and superannuated watch-dog, who had been turned out to die, was sleeping in an empty hogshead in the alley back of the big store belonging to his ...

    Article : 343 words
  15. A Matrimonial Mix.

    "One winter there was a contagion of matrimony in our school district," recalls a citizen who persists that he is still young at 70. "We were a merry party of young ...

    Article : 319 words
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