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A HUNTER who had lassoed a Bear was trying to disengage himself from the rope, but the slip-knot about his wrist would not yield, for the Bear was all...

A DRUNKEN Man was lying in the road with a bleeding nose, upon which he had fallen, when a Pig passed that way. “You wallow fairly well,“ said the Pig...

SOME Financiers who were whetting their tongues on their teeth because the Government had "struck down" silver, and were about to "inau...

AN Itinerant Preacher who had wrought hard in the moral vineyard for several hours whispered to a Holy Deacon of the local church: "Brother, thes...

"YOUR Honour," said an Attorney, rising, "what is the present status of this case - as far as it has gone?" "I have given a j...

AN Artillery Regiment of a State Militia applied to the Governor for wooden guns to practise with. "Those," they explained, "will be ch...

THE members of the School Board in Doosnoswair being suspected of appointing female teachers for an improper consideration, the people elected a Board...

AN Object was walking along the King's highway wrapped in meditation and with little else on, when he suddenly found himself at the gates of a str...

THE Head Rifler of an insolvent bank, learning that it was about to be visited by the official Noser into Things, placed his own personal note for a l...

A CAT was looking at a King, as permitted by the proverb. "Well," said the monarch, observing her inspection of the royal person, "how ...