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• 1.Alarm and Pride
• GOOD-MORNING, my friend, said Alarm to Pride; how are you this morning? Very tired, replied Pride, seating himself on a stone by the wayside and moppi...
• 2.The Member and the Soap
• A MEMBER of the Kansas Legislature meeting a Cake of Soap was passing it by without recognition, but the Cake of Soap insisted on stopping and shaking...
• 3.The Sagacious Rat
• A RAT that was about to emerge from his hole caught a glimpse of a Cat waiting for him, and descending to the colony at the bottom of the hole invited...
• 4.The Shadow of the Leader
• A POLITICAL Leader was walking out one sunny day, when he observed his Shadow leaving him and walking rapidly away. Come back here, you scoundrel, he ...
• 5.The Thistles upon the Grave
• A MIND Reader made a wager that he would be buried alive and remain so for six months, then be dug up alive. In order to secure the grave against secr...
• 6.The Two Poets
• Two Poets were quarrelling for the Apple of Discord and the Bone of Contention, for they were very hungry. My sons, said Apollo, I will part the prize...
• 7.The Bumbo of Jiam
• THE Pahdour of Patagascar and the Gookul of Madagonia were disputing about an island which both claimed. Finally, at the suggestion of the Internation...
• 8.The Tried Assassin
• AN Assassin being put upon trial in a New England court, his Counsel rose and said: Your Honour, I move for a discharge on the ground of 'once in jeop...
• 9.The Pavior
• AN Author saw a Labourer hammering stones into the pavement of a street, and approaching him said: My friend, you seem weary. Ambition is a hard taskm...
• 10.The Australian Grasshopper
• A DISTINGUISHED Naturalist was travelling in Australia, when he saw a Kangaroo in session and flung a stone at it. The Kangaroo immediately adjourned,...