The Funny Bone: Short Stories and Amusing Anecdotes for a Dull Hour

SHORT STORIES AND AMUSING ANECDOTES FOR A DULL HOUR EDITED AND ARRANGED BY HENRY MARTYN KIEFFER Author of “The Recollections of a Drummer Boy,” “It is to Laugh,” etc.
NEW YORK : : : DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY 214-220 East 23d Street Copyright, 1910, by DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY


“Laugh and grow fat is a saying of old, Whether or no ’tis a cause of obesity, This much I know that the physical man Laughter demands as a kind of necessity. Ha, ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha! Laughter demands as a kind of necessity.” — Old Song.


Tew brake a mule—commence at his head.