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A PESSIMIST-HUMOURIST

... of The Child Siren, a delicate little fantasy: And still the wind was not satisfied, He had a faint idea that he had not been doing much good. He ought, by rights, to have killed his masters, He knew that, but his masters could not be killed. How they ...

THE FIRST FLOWER OF THE YEAR

... value, to be hereafter deter. ruined. Lords of manors shall be qualified to kill game within their own manors. Occupiers of acres of land may be authorised by their landlords to kill game on the lands in their own occu. ation. Such authority to be given in ...

Lord Egrcont has announced his intention to (rive £*20,000 to the Iri*h Church. A lady has left Mrs. Gladstone ..

... A nns Augusta, to font the child of another woman upon Mr. Lowe as his own. She was also charged with exposing the infant in such a manner as to endanger its life. Evidence wa«* called to prove who was the mother of the child, and also to show the peculiar ...

CHARLES COGHLAN'S FOR LIFE

... latter tells the criminal how he has befriended his wife and child, and acknowledges that the child is not his, but that she would die if taken from him. Hle asks Corrado if lie will kill his child. The girl herself repels him with terror, and clings fondly ...

Published: Sunday 15 August 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1671 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE THEATRES

... loss of a son; hut in ilfarcel the son is a mere child, whose death is too certain to leave any hope of a joyful return. By a disastrous accident while shooting, a fond father has killed a son-an only child. Overwhelmed with grief, the father's reason has ...

Published: Saturday 14 December 1872
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 916 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE NEW DRURY LANE DRAMA

... arch-villain to nmurder the boy. The mother, aided- by another child-victi1- of the loathsome pair, and abetted by an opportune and terrific thundtrstorin, nranagts to abstract the child- from their clutches, and is hunted- uo and dlo, n the country until ...

SCRAPS FROM THE COMIC JOURNALS

... Couuties.-Diocesan Inepeotor : And what happened when they came to Paphos? Child: St. Paul struck Elymas the Sorcerer blind. Inspector: What did he strike him bsind for P Child: Because he sauced him, sir. A SUGGesrlaTO.-The opiumtr(de should more app ...

THE SLAVE OF DRINK

... Sandfords. Sandford has gone home beastly drunk, and almost killed his child, and whilst engaged in this parental work, MrE Sandford comes home, and seeing what has taken place, she decides to take the child away, and support herself independently of her husband ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1890
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1513 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Literature

... hear the trampling of their feet. Bring in the child ! How pale it is !--it droops !-it will die. I hate it-oh, how I hate it! Kill it ! -kill it !-kill the accursed offspring of Alice Danvers !- kill-kill I' ...

A LONDON ARAB

... last scene Alfred mneets Jean and accuses him of murdering his father. Mi Jean tries to escape and is killed. Toinette attempts Ti a to kill her child, but Jasper receives the shot and dies th in Billy's arms, in ...

Published: Saturday 25 March 1899
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1652 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE THEATRE

... she dare not let either Jean or her father knowv that she is a mother. News arrives that the child is ill, but Therese nobly pretends that it is her own child, and so prevents the truth from coming to the knowledge of the old man, whose life would not ...

GIFT BOOKS

... and cheap, equal to this in the quality and the selection of the pictures and in power of exciting rational attention in the child. Another book is Captain Mayne Reid's Bruin, or the Grand Bear Hunt (Routledge and Co.). Adventures with Bears are always popular ...