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• 1.Two Footpads
• Two Footpads sat at their grog in a roadside resort, comparing the evening's adventures. I stood up the Chief of Police, said the First Footpad, and I...
• 2.A Valuable Suggestion
• A BIG Nation having a quarrel with a Little Nation, resolved to terrify its antagonist by a grand naval demonstration in the latter's principal port. ...
• 3.An Optimist
• Two Frogs in the belly of a snake were considering their altered circumstances. This is pretty hard luck, said one. Don't jump to conclusions, the oth...
• 4.Revenge
• AN Insurance Agent was trying to induce a Hard Man to Deal With to take out a policy on his house. After listening to him for an hour, while he painte...
• 5.A Forfeited Right
• THE Chief of the Weather Bureau having predicted a fine day, a Thrifty Person hastened to lay in a large stock of umbrellas, which he exposed for sale...
• 6.The Divided Delegation
• A DELEGATION at Washington went to a New President, and said: Your Excellency, we are unable to agree upon a Favourite Son to represent us in your Cab...
• 7.The Man and the Wart
• A PERSON with a Wart on His Nose met a Person Similarly Afflicted, and said: Let me propose your name for membership in the Imperial Order of Abnormal...
• 8.The Politicians and the Plunder
• SEVERAL Political Entities were dividing the spoils. I will take the management of the prisons, said a Decent Respect for Public Opinion, and make a r...
• 9.The Deceased and his Heirs
• A MAN died leaving a large estate and many sorrowful relations who claimed it. After some years, when all but one had had judgment given against them,...
• 10.The Old Man and the Pupil
• A BEAUTIFUL Old Man, meeting a Sunday-school Pupil, laid his hand tenderly upon the lad's head, saying: Listen, my son, to the words of the wise and h...