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MILLIONAIRE ( to ragged beggar ) — “ You ask alms and do not even take your hat off . Is that the proper way to beg ? ” BEGGAR " Pardon me , sir . A policeman is looking at us from across the street . If I take my hat off he'll arrest ...
MILLIONAIRE ( to ragged beggar ) — “ You ask alms and do not even take your hat off . Is that the proper way to beg ? ” BEGGAR " Pardon me , sir . A policeman is looking at us from across the street . If I take my hat off he'll arrest ...
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He was about to approach him when the object of his solicitude lurched out into the street and threw himself into the arms of a passing policeman . " For Heaven's sake , off'cer , " he gasped , " protect me from that man .
He was about to approach him when the object of his solicitude lurched out into the street and threw himself into the arms of a passing policeman . " For Heaven's sake , off'cer , " he gasped , " protect me from that man .
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A little Boston girl with exquisitely long golden curls and quite an angelic appearance in general , came in from an afternoon walk with her nurse and said to her mother , " Oh , Mamma , a strange woman on the street said to me ...
A little Boston girl with exquisitely long golden curls and quite an angelic appearance in general , came in from an afternoon walk with her nurse and said to her mother , " Oh , Mamma , a strange woman on the street said to me ...
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ma , a strange woman on the street said to me , ' My , but ain't you got beautiful hair ! ' " The mother smiled , for the compliment was well merited , but she gasped as the child innocently continued her account : " I said to her ...
ma , a strange woman on the street said to me , ' My , but ain't you got beautiful hair ! ' " The mother smiled , for the compliment was well merited , but she gasped as the child innocently continued her account : " I said to her ...
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In a New York street a wagon loaded with lamp globes collided with a truck and many of the globes were smashed . Considerable sympathy was felt for the driver as he gazed ruefully at the shattered fragments . A benevolent - looking old ...
In a New York street a wagon loaded with lamp globes collided with a truck and many of the globes were smashed . Considerable sympathy was felt for the driver as he gazed ruefully at the shattered fragments . A benevolent - looking old ...
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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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