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Now we are going to add a special paragraph for the abso- * lutely inexperienced person - who has never given , or heard anyone else give , a toast . It would seem hardly possible in this day of banquets to find an individual who has ...
Now we are going to add a special paragraph for the abso- * lutely inexperienced person - who has never given , or heard anyone else give , a toast . It would seem hardly possible in this day of banquets to find an individual who has ...
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Here is a story that James Bryce tells of the most successful after - dinner speech he remembers to have heard . The speaker was a famous engineer , the occasion a dinner of the British Association for the Advancement of Science .
Here is a story that James Bryce tells of the most successful after - dinner speech he remembers to have heard . The speaker was a famous engineer , the occasion a dinner of the British Association for the Advancement of Science .
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Have you heard about the new manner in which the planters are going to pick their cotton this season ? " he inquired . " Don't believe I have , " answered the other . " Well , they have decided to import a lot of monkeys to do the ...
Have you heard about the new manner in which the planters are going to pick their cotton this season ? " he inquired . " Don't believe I have , " answered the other . " Well , they have decided to import a lot of monkeys to do the ...
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I just heard her say , ' Send it up C. O. D. ' Isn't that where we live ? " An Englishman went into his local library and asked for Frederic Harrison's George Washington and other American Addresses . In a little while he brought back ...
I just heard her say , ' Send it up C. O. D. ' Isn't that where we live ? " An Englishman went into his local library and asked for Frederic Harrison's George Washington and other American Addresses . In a little while he brought back ...
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While strolling along he heard a piano , and , following the sound , came to a house on which was a sign reading : " Miss Jones . Piano lessons 25 cents an hour . " Pausing to listen he heard the young woman trying to play one of ...
While strolling along he heard a piano , and , following the sound , came to a house on which was a sign reading : " Miss Jones . Piano lessons 25 cents an hour . " Pausing to listen he heard the young woman trying to play one of ...
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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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