Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsHarold Workman Williams H.W. Wilson, 1916 - 483 pages |
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... face ; I want to be an author , An air of studied grace ! I want to be an author , With genius on my brow ; I want to be an author , And I want to be it now ! -Ella Hutchison Ellwanger . That writer does the most , who gives his reader ...
... face ; I want to be an author , An air of studied grace ! I want to be an author , With genius on my brow ; I want to be an author , And I want to be it now ! -Ella Hutchison Ellwanger . That writer does the most , who gives his reader ...
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... face stops . " A near - sighted old lady at a dinner - party , one evening , had for her companion on the left a very bald - headed old gentleman . While talking to the gentleman at her right she dropped her napkin unconsciously . The ...
... face stops . " A near - sighted old lady at a dinner - party , one evening , had for her companion on the left a very bald - headed old gentleman . While talking to the gentleman at her right she dropped her napkin unconsciously . The ...
Page 46
... FACE IN THE WATER- " Excuse me , Sergeant , I'm not bathing ; I'm only drowning . " - Punch . A woman and her brother lived alone in the Scotch High- lands . She knitted gloves and garments to sell in the Lowland towns . Once when she ...
... FACE IN THE WATER- " Excuse me , Sergeant , I'm not bathing ; I'm only drowning . " - Punch . A woman and her brother lived alone in the Scotch High- lands . She knitted gloves and garments to sell in the Lowland towns . Once when she ...
Page 47
... face . " Oh , Kirstie , " he said , " I've lost me weskit . " They hunted high and low , but finally as night settled down decided that the waves must have carried it out to sea . was in the town selling her work , When his sister came ...
... face . " Oh , Kirstie , " he said , " I've lost me weskit . " They hunted high and low , but finally as night settled down decided that the waves must have carried it out to sea . was in the town selling her work , When his sister came ...
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... face - I don't mind it , Because I'm behind it— It's the people in front that I jar . " Shine yer boots , sir ? " " No , " snapped the man . " Shine ' em so's yer can see yer face in ' em ? " urged the bootblack . “ No , I tell you ...
... face - I don't mind it , Because I'm behind it— It's the people in front that I jar . " Shine yer boots , sir ? " " No , " snapped the man . " Shine ' em so's yer can see yer face in ' em ? " urged the bootblack . “ No , I tell you ...
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