Excerpt from Jug O'fun: 708 Choice Scraps for After Dinner Speakers This collection was started as a scrap-book for personal use, but has been revised and expanded to make it suit able for publication. Obviously very little claim can be made for the originality of the material, as nearly every thing in the volume was taken from current literature or from suggestlons furnished by friends and public speakers. I wish especially to express my thanks to the following periodicals which permitted the use of humor from their files: The Literary Digest, New York; The Christian Register, Boston; The Country Gentleman, Philadelphia; Colliers, The National Weekly, New York; The Earth Mover, Aurora, Ill. The Illinois Teacher, Springfield, Ill.; The American Legion Monthly, New York; Life, New York; The Pathfinder, Washington, D. C. The Epworth Herald, Chicago; and the Boston Tran script, Boston. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.