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• 1.A Weary Echo
• A CONVENTION of female writers, which for two days had been stuffing Woman's couch with goose-quills and hailing the down of a new era, adjourned with...
• 2.An Antidote
• A YOUNG Ostrich came to its Mother, groaning with pain and with its wings tightly crossed upon its stomach. What have you been eating? the Mother aske...
• 3.Saint and Sinner
• MY friend, said a distinguished officer of the Salvation Army, to a Most Wicked Sinner, I was once a drunkard, a thief, an assassin. The Divine Grace ...
• 4.The Mirror
• A SILKEN-EARED Spaniel, who traced his descent from King Charles the Second of England, chanced to look into a mirror which was leaning against the wa...
• 5.Three Recruits
• A FARMER, an Artisan, and a Labourer went to the King of their country and complained that they were compelled to support a large standing army of mer...
• 6.Two Dogs
• THE Dog, as created, had a rigid tail, but after some centuries of a cheerless existence, unappreciated by Man, who made him work for his living, he i...
• 7.A Statesman
• A STATESMAN who attended a meeting of a Chamber of Commerce rose to speak, but was objected to on the ground that he had nothing to do with commerce. ...
• 8.The Return of the Representative
• HEARING that the Legislature had adjourned, the people of an Assembly District held a mass-meeting to devise a suitable punishment for their represent...
• 9.The Judge and the Plaintiff
• A MAN of Experience in Business was awaiting the judgment of the Court in an action for damages which he had brought against a railway company. The do...
• 10.An Inadequate Fee
• AN Ox, unable to extricate himself from the mire into which he sank, was advised to make use of a Political Pull. When the Political Pull had arrived,...