FOOTNOTES:
[1] Pronounce as written CLERK.
[2] Do it again.
[3] Reference D. P. W.
[4] Pronounce Clerk as in the “upper suckles.”
[5] This joke was first made in 1902.
THE PARABLE OF GASTONIO
AND HOW HE SAVED HIS BACON
And Gastonio was sore afraid; he quaked with fear so that his knees wobbled, and his face paled even to the brown wart on his nose.
And the reason thereof was that his brother Alphonso was discovered.