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Five dollars for my latest story , ' The Call of the Lure ! ' 29 FAST FRIEND " Who from ? " AMBITIOUS AUTHOR- " The express company . They lost it . " A lady who had arranged an authors ' reading at her house succeeded in persuading her ...
Five dollars for my latest story , ' The Call of the Lure ! ' 29 FAST FRIEND " Who from ? " AMBITIOUS AUTHOR- " The express company . They lost it . " A lady who had arranged an authors ' reading at her house succeeded in persuading her ...
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The gate - keeper , demanding the usual fee for automobiles , called : " A dollar for the car ! " The owner looked up with a pathetic smile of relief and said : Autos rush in where mortgages have dared to tread .
The gate - keeper , demanding the usual fee for automobiles , called : " A dollar for the car ! " The owner looked up with a pathetic smile of relief and said : Autos rush in where mortgages have dared to tread .
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I fine you ten dollars for loitering . ” — Fenimore Martin . AVIATION The aviator's wife was taking her first trip with her husband in his airship . " Wait a minute , George , " she said . " I'm afraid we will have to go down again .
I fine you ten dollars for loitering . ” — Fenimore Martin . AVIATION The aviator's wife was taking her first trip with her husband in his airship . " Wait a minute , George , " she said . " I'm afraid we will have to go down again .
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She advanced to the paying teller's window and , handing in a check for fifty dollars , stated that it was a birthday present from her husband and asked for payment . The teller informed her that she must first endorse it .
She advanced to the paying teller's window and , handing in a check for fifty dollars , stated that it was a birthday present from her husband and asked for payment . The teller informed her that she must first endorse it .
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No , " he admitted , “ I gave him a dollar for his damned new cathedral at Laramie ! " To get thine ends , lay bashfulnesse aside ; Who feares to aske , doth teach to be deny'd . Well , whiles I am a beggar I will rail And say , there ...
No , " he admitted , “ I gave him a dollar for his damned new cathedral at Laramie ! " To get thine ends , lay bashfulnesse aside ; Who feares to aske , doth teach to be deny'd . Well , whiles I am a beggar I will rail And say , there ...
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| Pealkiri | Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and Quotations |
| Editor | Harold Workman Williams |
| Compiled by | Clara Elizabeth Fanning, Harold Workman Williams, Halsey William Wilson |
| Edition | 3, reprint |
| Publisher | H.W. Wilson, 1916 |
| Original from | California Ülikool |
| Digitized | 11 dets. 2007 |
| Length | 483 pages |
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