Jokes For All Occasions - Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Jokes For All Occasions, by Anonymous 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: Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Author: Anonymous Release Date: April 15, 2007 [EBook #21084] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOKES FOR ALL OCCASIONS *** Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net JOKES FOR ALL OCCASIONS SELECTED AND EDITED BY ONE OF AMERICA'S FOREMOST PUBLIC SPEAKERS NEW YORK EDWARD J. CLODE Copyright, 1921, 1922, by Edward J. Clode Printed in the United States of America JOKES FOR ALL OCCASIONS CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION STORIES PAGES SELECTED AND EDITED BY "LIFE'S" FAMOUS CONTRIBUTOR [Pg 7]PREFACE The ways of telling a story are as many as the tellers themselves. It is impossible to lay down precise rules by which any one may perfect himself in the art, but it is possible to offer suggestions by which to guide practise in narration toward a gratifying success. Broadly distinguished, there are two methods of telling a story. One uses the extreme of brevity, and makes its chief reliance on the point.