Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsClara Elizabeth Fanning, Halsey William Wilson H.W. Wilson Company, 1916 - 483 pages |
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Page 13
... told the following story : " I was up in Rockland County last summer , and there was a banquet given at a country hotel . All the farmers were there and all the village characters . I was asked to make a speech . 66 ' ' Now , ' said I ...
... told the following story : " I was up in Rockland County last summer , and there was a banquet given at a country hotel . All the farmers were there and all the village characters . I was asked to make a speech . 66 ' ' Now , ' said I ...
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... told the correct age , which did not require a fare , the conductor passed on to the next person . The boy sat quite still as if pondering over some question , and then , concluding that full information had not been given , called ...
... told the correct age , which did not require a fare , the conductor passed on to the next person . The boy sat quite still as if pondering over some question , and then , concluding that full information had not been given , called ...
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... told this story : When Queen Liliuokalani was in England during the Eng- lish queen's jubilee , she was received at Buckingham Palace . In the course of the remarks that passed between the two queens , the one from the Sandwich Islands ...
... told this story : When Queen Liliuokalani was in England during the Eng- lish queen's jubilee , she was received at Buckingham Palace . In the course of the remarks that passed between the two queens , the one from the Sandwich Islands ...
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... told them of the Bible verse , " Let not the sun go down upon your wrath . ” " Now , Charlie , " she pleaded , " are you going to let the sun go down on your wrath ? " Charlie squirmed a little . Then : " Well , how can I stop it ...
... told them of the Bible verse , " Let not the sun go down upon your wrath . ” " Now , Charlie , " she pleaded , " are you going to let the sun go down on your wrath ? " Charlie squirmed a little . Then : " Well , how can I stop it ...
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... told him of a curious encounter he had had with a local magistrate in a town not far from his own . It appears that Rostand had been asked to register the birth of a friend's newly arrived son . The clerk at the registry of- fice was an ...
... told him of a curious encounter he had had with a local magistrate in a town not far from his own . It appears that Rostand had been asked to register the birth of a friend's newly arrived son . The clerk at the registry of- fice was an ...
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