The Jest Book - The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Jest Book, by Mark Lemon 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: The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings Author: Mark Lemon Release Date: January 13, 2007 [EBook #20352] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE JEST BOOK *** Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Christine D. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE JEST BOOK University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co. THE JEST BOOK THE CHOICEST ANECDOTES AND SAYINGS SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY MARK LEMON CAMBRIDGE SEVER AND FRANCIS 1865 PREFACE. The Compiler of this new Jest Book is desirous to make known that it is composed mainly of old jokes,—some older than Joe Miller himself,—with a liberal sprinkling of new jests gathered from books and hearsay. In the course of his researches he has been surprised to find how many Jests, Impromptus, and Repartees have passed current, century after century, until their original utterer is lost in the "mist of ages"; a Good Joke being transferred from one reputed Wit to another, thus resembling certain rare Wines which are continually being rebottled but are never consumed. Dr.