The Hand-book of Joking; Or, What to Say, Do, and Avoid, by Two of the Joneses |
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... give a few of his happiest . Walking one day with Lady Letitia Lamposte , the rather elderly , and remarkably thin , daughter of the Earl of Gassburnham , and seeing the Ojibbeway Indians go by in their conveyance to the Egyptian Hall ...
... give a few of his happiest . Walking one day with Lady Letitia Lamposte , the rather elderly , and remarkably thin , daughter of the Earl of Gassburnham , and seeing the Ojibbeway Indians go by in their conveyance to the Egyptian Hall ...
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... give them railways . Asking for bread and receiv- ing a stone is a sad mockery , but really there is something so ludicrous in the idea of sending a horde of hungry people locomotive engines and iron rails , that much as we " feel ...
... give them railways . Asking for bread and receiv- ing a stone is a sad mockery , but really there is something so ludicrous in the idea of sending a horde of hungry people locomotive engines and iron rails , that much as we " feel ...
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... give two examples of the style of joke prevalent among these gentry . Tom Lothbury was strolling down Cornhill , with his friend Jack Faddle ( who made such a ' lump of money " in " the Great Luxem . bourgs " ) , when he observed a ...
... give two examples of the style of joke prevalent among these gentry . Tom Lothbury was strolling down Cornhill , with his friend Jack Faddle ( who made such a ' lump of money " in " the Great Luxem . bourgs " ) , when he observed a ...
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... Gives each an appropriate well - fitting suit . It was she I am sure who made thee thy dress , And then sent thee forth in thy loveliness . Now tell me , sweet rose , if there is not one , By whom great Nature herself is outdone , One ...
... Gives each an appropriate well - fitting suit . It was she I am sure who made thee thy dress , And then sent thee forth in thy loveliness . Now tell me , sweet rose , if there is not one , By whom great Nature herself is outdone , One ...
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... give way to chaff . Having thus illustrated the power of jokes , and shown how they may become useful when reason fails , we cannot do better than suggest a line of joking which may be pursued with considerable advantage to the ...
... give way to chaff . Having thus illustrated the power of jokes , and shown how they may become useful when reason fails , we cannot do better than suggest a line of joking which may be pursued with considerable advantage to the ...
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