Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsClara Elizabeth Fanning, Halsey William Wilson H.W. Wilson Company, 1916 - 483 pages |
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... visiting in a South Carolina village and he sauntered up to a native sitting in front of the general store , and began a conversation . " Have you heard about the new manner in which the planters are going to pick their cotton this ...
... visiting in a South Carolina village and he sauntered up to a native sitting in front of the general store , and began a conversation . " Have you heard about the new manner in which the planters are going to pick their cotton this ...
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... visiting a west- ern city where he was invited to inspect the new free library . The librarian conducted the famous writer through the build- ing until they finally reached the department of books de- voted to fiction . " We have all ...
... visiting a west- ern city where he was invited to inspect the new free library . The librarian conducted the famous writer through the build- ing until they finally reached the department of books de- voted to fiction . " We have all ...
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... visited the town . And while Kirstie sold her wool in the town , Sandy splashed about in the brine . When Kirstie joined her brother she found him with a radiant face , and he cried out to her , “ Oh , Kirstie , I've found me weskit ...
... visited the town . And while Kirstie sold her wool in the town , Sandy splashed about in the brine . When Kirstie joined her brother she found him with a radiant face , and he cried out to her , “ Oh , Kirstie , I've found me weskit ...
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... visiting in the country I made a very pain- ful blunder which I never want to repeat . " " Indeed ! Mistook a stranger for an acquaintance ? " " No , not exactly that ; I mistook a bumblebee for a black- berry . " The ship doctor of ...
... visiting in the country I made a very pain- ful blunder which I never want to repeat . " " Indeed ! Mistook a stranger for an acquaintance ? " " No , not exactly that ; I mistook a bumblebee for a black- berry . " The ship doctor of ...
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... visiting an old prospector in his lonely cabin in the hills , commented : " And yet you seem so cheerful and happy . " " Yes , " replied the one of the pick and shovel . " I spent a week in Boston once , and no matter what happens to me ...
... visiting an old prospector in his lonely cabin in the hills , commented : " And yet you seem so cheerful and happy . " " Yes , " replied the one of the pick and shovel . " I spent a week in Boston once , and no matter what happens to me ...
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