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... Wives of Windsor " has Falstaff say , “ Fetch me a quart of sack and put a toast in ' t . " Later the term came to be applied to the lady in whose honor the company drank , her name serving to flavor the bumper as the toast flavored ...
... Wives of Windsor " has Falstaff say , “ Fetch me a quart of sack and put a toast in ' t . " Later the term came to be applied to the lady in whose honor the company drank , her name serving to flavor the bumper as the toast flavored ...
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Be brief . An after - dinner audience is in a particuarly defenceless position . It is so out in the open . There is no opportunity for a quiet nod or two behind a newspaper or the hat of the lady in front . If you bore your hearers by ...
Be brief . An after - dinner audience is in a particuarly defenceless position . It is so out in the open . There is no opportunity for a quiet nod or two behind a newspaper or the hat of the lady in front . If you bore your hearers by ...
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There once was a lady from Guam , Who said , " Now the sea is so calm I will swim , for a lark " ; But she met with a shark . Let us now sing the ninetieth psalm . BRICKLAYER ( to mate , who had just had a hodful of bricks fall on his ...
There once was a lady from Guam , Who said , " Now the sea is so calm I will swim , for a lark " ; But she met with a shark . Let us now sing the ninetieth psalm . BRICKLAYER ( to mate , who had just had a hodful of bricks fall on his ...
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There was a young lady named Hannah , Who slipped on a peel of banana . More stars she espied As she lay on her side Than are found in the Star Spangled Banner . A gentleman sprang to assist her ; He picked up her glove and her wrister ...
There was a young lady named Hannah , Who slipped on a peel of banana . More stars she espied As she lay on her side Than are found in the Star Spangled Banner . A gentleman sprang to assist her ; He picked up her glove and her wrister ...
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ADDRESSES In a large store a child , pointing to a shopper exclaimed , " Oh , mother , that lady lives the same place we do . I just heard her say , ' Send it up C. O. D. ' Isn't that where we live ? " An Englishman went into his local ...
ADDRESSES In a large store a child , pointing to a shopper exclaimed , " Oh , mother , that lady lives the same place we do . I just heard her say , ' Send it up C. O. D. ' Isn't that where we live ? " An Englishman went into his local ...
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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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