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• 1.A Needless Labour
• AFTER waiting many a weary day to revenge himself upon a Lion for some unconsidered manifestation of contempt, a Skunk finally saw him coming, and pos...
• 2.The Appropriate Memorial
• A HIGH Public Functionary having died, the citizens of his town held a meeting to consider how to honour his memory, and an Other High Public Function...
• 3.The Desperate Object
• A DISHONEST Gain was driving in its luxurious carriage through its private park, when it saw something which frantically and repeatedly ran against a ...
• 4.Two of the Pious
• A CHRISTIAN and a Heathen in His Blindness were disputing, when the Christian, with that charming consideration which serves to distinguish the truly ...
• 5.The Debaters
• A HURLED-BACK Allegation, which, after a brief rest, had again started forth upon its mission of mischief, met an Ink-stand in mid-air. How did the Ho...
• 6.A Revivalist Revived
• A REVIVALIST who had fallen dead in the pulpit from too violent religious exercise was astonished to wake up in Hades. He promptly sent for the Advers...
• 7.The Fabulist and the Animals
• A WISE and illustrious Writer of Fables was visiting a travelling menagerie with a view to collecting literary materials. As he was passing near the E...
• 8.Three of a Kind
• A LAWYER in whom an instinct of justice had survived the wreck of his ignorance of law was retained for the defence of a burglar whom the police had t...
• 9.From the Minutes
• AN Orator afflicted with atrophy of the organ of common-sense rose in his place in the halls of legislation and pointed with pride to his Unblotted Es...
• 10.The Man and the Bird
• A MAN with a Shotgun said to a Bird: It is all nonsense, you know, about shooting being a cruel sport. I put my skill against your cunning-that is all...