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The City of Political Distinction
2023-12-05JAMRACH the Rich, being anxious to reach the City of Political Distinction before nightfall, arrived at a fork of the road and was undecided which bra...
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The Angel's Tear
2023-12-05AN Unworthy Man who had laughed at the woes of a Woman whom he loved, was bewailing his indiscretion in sack-cloth-of-gold and ashes-of-roses, when th...
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The Flying-Machine
2023-12-05AN Ingenious Man who had built a flying-machine invited a great concourse of people to see it go up. At the appointed moment, everything being ready, ...
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The Alderman and the Raccoon
2023-12-05"I SEE quite a number of rings on your tail," said an Alderman to a Raccoon that he met in a zoological garden. "Yes," replied the...
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The Man with No Enemies
2023-12-05AN Inoffensive Person walking in a public place was assaulted by a Stranger with a Club, and severely beaten. When the Stranger with a Club was brough...
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The Lion and the Rattlesnake
2023-12-05A MAN having found a Lion in his path undertook to subdue him by the power of the human eye; and near by was a Rattlesnake engaged in fascinating a sm...
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The Literary Astronomer
2023-12-05THE Director of an Observatory, who, with a thirty-six-inch refractor, had discovered the moon, hastened to an Editor, with a four-column account of t...
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The Cat and the King
2023-12-05A CAT was looking at a King, as permitted by the proverb. "Well," said the monarch, observing her inspection of the royal person, "how ...
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The Noser and the Note
2023-12-05THE 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...
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The Poet's Doom
2023-12-05AN 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...