A STATESMAN heard some Labourers singing at their work, and wishing to be happy too, asked them what made them so. “Honesty,“ replied the Labourers. S...
A MEMBER of the State Militia stood at a street corner, scowling stormily, and the people passing that way went a long way around him, thinking of the...
Two Thieves having stolen a Piano and being unable to divide it fairly without a remainder went to law about it and continued the contest as long as e...
A STATE Official carrying off the Dome of the Capitol met the Ghost of his predecessor, who had come out of his political grave to warn him that God s...
AN Editor who was always vaunting the purity, enterprise, and fearlessness of his paper was pained to observe that he got no subscribers. One day it o...
A RICH Man wanted to tell a certain lie, but the lie was of such monstrous size that it stuck in his throat; so he employed an Editor to write it out ...
THE Members of a body of Socialists rose in insurrection against their Bellamy. "Why," said they, "should we be all the time tucking yo...
A MOUNTAIN was in labour, and the people of seven cities had assembled to watch its movements and hear its groans. While they waited in breathless exp...
THE Sun and the North Wind disputed which was the more powerful, and agreed that he should be declared victor who could the sooner strip a traveller o...
A LOGICAL Crab said to his Son, "Why do you not walk straight forward? Your sidelong gait is singularly ungraceful." "Why don't you...