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  2. Chapter XXI.—A Burglary and an Interruption.

    Whilst Sir Donald MacVeigh sat in disturbed slumber in his study armchair and the city about him hummed with the panic news. Mr. Hoppner and ...

    Article : 1,567 words
  3. POETRY AND TRIFLES.

    There comes along the ether wares Where'er the southern cross holds stray, A voice, that for our nation craves The dawning of a wiser day. ...

    Article : 337 words
  4. PAYING HIM BACK.

    A Lancashire youth walked up to counter is a Post Office and asked for a penny stamp. It appeared, however, that he had got to the wrong gunter for ...

    Article : 113 words
  5. TAKING REFUGE.

    Mrs. Hicks was telling some ladies about the burglar scare in her house the night before. "Yes," she said "I heard a noise and ...

    Article : 62 words
  6. TO BE REFILLED.

    In a certain town there is a well-known school of theology, from which go out each week-end many members of the senior class to try their Voices as "supplies." ...

    Article : 80 words
  7. GETTING HIS WHACKING'S WORTH.

    A gentleman, whose fruit orchards had been very often robbed, caught a boy up one of his trees. "Come down you young rascal!" ...

    Article : 130 words
  8. HIS EDUCATIONAL LIMIT.

    A lawyer was telling some colleagues a fee neat retorts he had heard in Court when be was reminded of the interchange of compliments between a sheriff and a ...

    Article : 75 words
  9. NOT ENOUGH TO GO ROUND.

    The glories d the South African campaign were not his, but he had been doing just as good work, as a simple Tommy Atkins, against the tribes who infest the ...

    Article : 115 words
  10. GOOD CRITIC.

    Sir Henry Irving once wanted a which horse to use in one of his scenes, but no white horse that was suitable, could he get ...

    Article : 129 words
  11. I WAS WALKING IN THE SUNSHINE.

    I was walking in the sunshine on an afternoon is spring, All the air was full of sweetness, all the pastures seemed to sing. ...

    Article : 431 words
  12. WASN'T ALARMED.

    A prominent lawyer in Sooth Africa suspected his [?]locred servant of tampering with a certain brand of fine whisky in his trine cellar. The employer decided to ...

    Article : 226 words
  13. A WOMAN'S WAY.

    Wife: "I bare made ten pounds this afternoon." Husband: "Phew!" "You paid twenty pounds for that old ...

    Article : 112 words
  14. MADE HER LAUGH.

    There was a worried look on the grocer's face as be rushed hatless down the street, ran up the steps of Acacia Villa. and gave a nervous tug at the bell pull. ...

    Article : 229 words
  15. TIP FOR TOURISTS.

    "If you ever go to Bermuda I can tell you how to make time at the Custom House," said a returned New Yorker. "I reached Berunda early in the morning. I ...

    Article : 250 words
  16. MADE IN GERMANY.

    On board an Atlantic steamer the representative of a Germany house was endeavouring to open an account with the head of an firm. ...

    Article : 171 words
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