Excerpt: ...ain't no sech jokes roun' dis yere White House on Sunday.' "Well, let us get back to Ward and begin de novo. And, by the way, that was the first Latin phrase I ever heard. But I like Pg 73 Ward, because all his fun and all his yarns are as clean as spring water. He doesn't insinuate or suggest approval of evil. He doesn't ridicule true religion. He never speaks slightingly or grossly of woman. He is a one-hundred-carat man in his motives. I am often accredited with telling disgraceful barroom stories, and ...
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Excerpt: ...ain't no sech jokes roun' dis yere White House on Sunday.' "Well, let us get back to Ward and begin de novo. And, by the way, that was the first Latin phrase I ever heard. But I like Pg 73 Ward, because all his fun and all his yarns are as clean as spring water. He doesn't insinuate or suggest approval of evil. He doesn't ridicule true religion. He never speaks slightingly or grossly of woman. He is a one-hundred-carat man in his motives. I am often accredited with telling disgraceful barroom stories, and sometimes see them in print, but I have no time to contradict them. Perhaps people forget them soon. I hope so. I don't know how I came by the name of a storyteller. It is not a fame I would seek. But I have tried to use as many as I could find that were good so as to cheer up people in this hard world. "Ward said that he did not know much about education in the schools, but he had an idea the training there was more to make the child think quickly and think accurately than to memorize facts. If that were the case he thought a textbook on bright jokes would be a valuable addition to a school curriculum. Pg 74 "Ward's sharp jokes do discipline the mind. Ward told Tad last summer that Adam was snaked out of Eden, and that Goliath was surprised when David hit him because such a thing never entered his head before. Ward told Mr. Chase that his father was an artist who was true to life, for he made a scarecrow so bad that the crows brought back the corn they had stolen two years before. Ward believes that the riddles of Sampson, the fables of
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Add this copy of Why Lincoln Laughed to cart. $5.62, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2017 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
Add this copy of Why Lincoln Laughed to cart. $5.62, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2016 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
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Add this copy of Why Lincoln laughed to cart. $20.04, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2018 by Outlook Verlag.
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Frontis Illustration. Near Very Good. No DJ. Book. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. Copy contains some pencil underlining and writing in the margins throughout. Green covers with gold lettering on front a little faded but legible. Lettering on spine with loss of gild and just legible. Half title page with moderate foxing on front and heavier on back. Frontis illustration of Lincoln fairly clean with no foxing. Light foxing on a few pages. A few passages with pencilled underlining. Rare in this original edition. Same date on title and copyright page. No edition statement.
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