Baker's minstrel joke book.

It ain't often I get the chance of a joke agin you Ginger; you're too sharp for a old man like me.' "Ginger Dick didn't say anything.

"'Little-joke-o' mine-Ginger,' ses Sam, when they caught 'im. 'I was going to tell you about it to-night.

Joke tellers Joke book.

It appeared that Burns had told his practical joke broadcast, for the young man heard his name mentioned, and then some one behind him snickered.

" The Michigan man belonged to a practical joke class, and filled in the names of some of his prohibition friends on the blank spaces left for that purpose.

'One golden bloom for one golden yolk Nay, on my word, sir, I mean no joke Gold for gold is fair dealing, sir.'

Some one has taken them't is a joke KING (interrupting).

he would ask, and if Nils Holgersson said no, he began immediately to relate the old joke-legend.

In general, it may be said that if a man's conception of the world lets loose any action in him that is easy, or any faculty which he is fond of exercising, he will deem it rational in so far forth, be the faculty that of computing, fighting, lecturing, classifying, framing schematic tabulations, getting the better end of a bargain, patiently waiting and enduring, preaching, joke-making, or what you like.

Such a large place does the "story" hold in our national life that we have invented a social pastime that might be termed a "joke match."

We know that Trajan, Pliny, Tacitus, the Antonines, Celsus, Lucian and the like,much more the ten thousand philosophers and joke-smiths of Rome,did both feel and apply all this to the Galilean Sect; and yet'Vicisti, O Galilæe'! Ib.

"No joke skippin' th' ole lady," he chuckled in an undertone.

Joke awaybut don't forget yourself, my dear fellow!

Don't breathe a word, girls," she went on, turning toward them all, and brimming over with merriment and mischief;"but there's the best joke brewing.