Not stories in the literary sense but short humorous anecdotes, the kind told after dinner or in a club smoking room. Masson, longtime editor of the humour magazine Life, collects tales of doctors and lawyers, soldiers and parsons, an illiterate sexton who became rich, and many more, with a foreword on why a joke lands with one reader and not another.
A browsing book of early twentieth-century American humour, some of it dated and much of it still funny. Download the free EPUB.