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The Project Gutenberg eBook, More Toasts, Edited by Marion Dix Mosher This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: More Toasts Editor: Marion Dix Mosher Release Date: March 12, 2005 [eBook #15338] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MORE TOASTS*** E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Sandra Brown, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team MORE TOASTS Jokes, Stories and Quotations Compiled by MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co. 1922 * * * * * BOOKS OF JOKES, STORIES AND QUOTATIONS TOASTER'S HANDBOOK. Peggy Edmond and Harold Workman Williams. 501p. $1.80 MORE TOASTS. Marion D. Mosher. 552p. $1.80 * * * * * CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION The Divine Gift of Humor The Function of Humor Importance of Humor MORE TOASTS INDEX PREFACE The success of the Toaster's Handbook has encouraged its publishers to compile another that will supplement it and bring it up-to-date. New subjects keep coming to the front, and the up-to-date toaster needs up-to-date stories to fit the up-to-date subjects. No public occasion of today is complete without its joke on the nineteenth amendment, the allied debts, the income tax, etc. In offering the toasts, jokes, quotations and stories in this second volume, the editor has endeavored to bring further aid to the distracted toastmaster, to the professional after-dinner speaker who must change his stories often, and to individuals inexperienced in public speaking and so unfortunate as to have public addresses forced upon them. He views the product with much the same feeling as did Alexander Pope, who said, "O'er his books his eyes began to roll, in pleasing memory of all he stole." Paolo Bellezze expressed the same feelings in the introduction to his work "Humor" when he said "Of this work of mine, I must confess it is a great lot of stuff gathered from everywhere except from my brain.... It is a necklace of pearls strun
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