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  2. The Cosmic Play.

    Oh pray don't let us gamble Oh dear don't let us bet Why the Planet is a teetotum And Life one long roulette! ...

    Article : 165 words
  3. Her Reason.

    Wife: "The price of the clook was £2, but I got a discount, so it only cost me 35s." Husband: "Yes, but you could have got the same thing at Beezle's for £1." ...

    Article : 47 words
  4. Reviewer.

    Mr. A. Bernie Bell bids fair to make his mark as a writer of short colonial stories, several of his literary efforts having already found considerable favour with Queensland ...

    Article : 792 words
  5. It Was Hollow Inside.

    Esmerelda Longcoffin complained of toothache. Young Vanderehump, a visitor, said: "Miss Esmerelda, you will have to have that tooth pulled if it aches. It is probably hollow ...

    Article : 69 words
  6. How He Tells the Time.

    "My father," said the small boy to the woman who was calling on his mother, "is a great man. He knows what time it is without even looking at his watch." ...

    Article : 102 words
  7. Blackfellow Yarns.

    Mr. Meston is never at a loss. Yesterday after a paper had been read in the Ethnological Section upon the way in which aboriginals store water and find it in the dry interior, the ...

    Article : 227 words
  8. Flotsam and Jetsam.

    [Some readers who have been kind enough to send in contributions for this column evidently do not understand that only bush songs are wanted. The majority of so.called songs sent in are simply poems ...

    Article : 285 words
  9. What Spoils the Coffee.

    At last we have an infallible rule for coffee, and though it comes from an unknown source it is warranted to please the most exacting epicure. It runs as follows:— ...

    Article : 173 words
  10. Why He Was Unique.

    Miss Gaustique: "So you are engaged to that Mr. Atkinson, are you ? Now, tell me honestly, what can you see in him that distinguishes him from all the other men in the world whom you ...

    Article : 55 words
  11. Facts and Fancies.

    He: "Oh, I'm not so big a fool as you think." She: "Of course not; that were impossible." "Is young Jimkins improving in his violin work?" "I dunno. Either he's improvin' or we're gettin ...

    Article : 743 words
  12. No Joke.

    This is a German story, and therefore, as the stolid Teuton is supposed to be incapable of a joke, it must be true:— Hans Miiller, a private in the Pomeranian ...

    Article : 212 words
  13. A Misstatement.

    Mrs. Spiffing had answered the door of her suburban residence in person. There was a man at the threshold who politely touched the brim of a hat of the vintage of '92, and began: ...

    Article : 130 words
  14. Nothing to Match.

    The elegantly attired lady moved quietly up to the glove counter, where there was a new salesman, who was polite and willing enough, but he didn't know much about the ...

    Article : 92 words
  15. Pat and the Bicycle.

    Pat Devlin, a young mason, bad not been long in Queensland, but he had already begun to do well. Although he made a good deal of money, he was conservative about it. ...

    Article : 175 words
  16. Young Australia in the Far West.

    A correspondent (of the ferociously faithful type) writes as follows to the Western Champion (Barcaldine):— Last week I overheard the following ...

    Article : 456 words
  17. Stage Stories.

    Three or four years ago, when "As You Like It" was being played at Washington, Rosalind had just exclaimed "Look! Here comes a lover of mine," when in waltzed a tom-cat ...

    Article : 232 words
  18. It Was the Governor.

    Twas the last day in 1894. Hard times had compelled many men to avail themselves of the Government's provision and go to work in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens on the usual day's ...

    Article : 315 words
  19. "Bob's In."

    There is to be a wedding, so they say, A great event, mark you, for on that day The lovely Sarah, pride of Bonar's Nob, Is to bo given away to handsome Bob. ...

    Article : 250 words
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