We’ll Say So!
While Al. Jolson, the black-face comedian, was touring the Pacific Coast with his latest starring vehicle, “Sinbad,” he visited the California insane asylum, at Napa. Passing through one of the wards he noticed a rather neat chap and asked the attendant the nature of the fellow’s trouble.
The attendant told the comedian that it was a new case. Had only arrived the previous day.
Jolson approached the patient and inquired “If you had only one wish in the world, and it would be granted, what would you wish for?”
The patient looked at Jolson and said, “I’d wish that Volstead was born with a thirst!”
With a smile Jolson replied, “You might have been crazy when they brought you here yesterday, brother, but you’re talking good sense today!”
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