More Toasts Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the More Toasts novel. A total of 217 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : More Toasts.Edited by Marion Dix Mosher.PREFACE The success of the Toaster's Handbo
More Toasts.Edited by Marion Dix Mosher.PREFACE The success of the Toaster's Handbook has encouraged its publishers to compile another that will supplement it and bring it up-to-date. New subjects keep coming to the front, and the up-to-date toaster
- 201 You raise a Crop, they fine you for it!TEACHERS FATHER (meaningly)--"Who is the laziest member of your cla.s.s, Tommy?"TOMMY--"I don't know, pa."FATHER--"I should think you should know. When all the others are industriously studying or writing their
- 202 TELEPHONE The editor of The j.a.pan Times says the telephone service in j.a.pan is utterly bad. He wonders "what Job would have done had he lived in Tokyo and wanted to telephone to the specialist on boils." He concludes with the following incident: "A
- 203 THE WAITER--"Maybe you did, sir. But that was only by an act of Providence."A temperance lecturer was enthusiastically denouncing the use of all intoxicants."I wish all the beer, all the wine, all the whiskey in the world was at the bottom of the ocean
- 204 THIEVES He was a very small boy, and the apples he was eyeing were very large.He eyed them for ten minutes, longingly and furtively, while the greengrocer bustled about serving customers. Now he edged near the tempting basket. Now he edged away again. And
- 205 TIME _Time's Prisoner_ I am content with Now, whate'er befall, Whether I will or no, Today is all; No matter whether swift or slow my tread I find tomorrow still a day ahead; I cannot overtake eternity-- It turns to time and slips away from me, And in l
- 206 TRADE When they beat their swords into plowshares, the next move is to beat their compet.i.tors into foreign markets. TRADE MARKS Most of the wrinkles in a business mans face are trademarks. TRADE UNIONS TEACHER--"If a man gets four dollars for working e
- 207 TRENCHES CHEERFUL ONE (to newcomer, on being asked what the trenches are like)--"If yer stands up yer get sniped; if yer keeps down yer gets drowned; if yer moves about yer gets sh.e.l.led; and if yer stands still yer gets court-martialed for frost-bite.
- 208 A vocation is something you do for a living, an avocation something you do for a while, a vacation something you couldn't stick at very long without being dead broke and dead tired.JUDGE--"Six months!"COS COB CON--"Ah, wot a relief! No
- 209 In St. Louis there is one ward that is full of breweries. In a recent election the local option question was up. After the election the clerks were counting the votes. One was calling off and another taking down the option votes. The first clerk, running
- 210 BENNETT--"My, Storer must be rich."JONES--"How so?"BENNETT--"He was cleaning his mother's windows with gold dust in the water."WEATHER A Salina man tells this as happening to him. Early in the morning one winter's d
- 211 WELSH Admittedly this may be an old story, but it has the distinction of possessing a new twist at the end.A person died. He willed all his earthly possessions to be divided among an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotchman. But the will was conditional; e
- 212 The day was drawing to a close. Judge, jurors, witnesses, and lawyers all were growing weary. Counsel for the prosecution was cross-examining the defendant."Exactly how far is it between the two towns?" he asked at length.For some time Paddy sto
- 213 "Don't you ever say anything when you have nothing to say?""No.""Will you be my wife?""What's Blinks going to do with his new noiseless typewriter?""If he takes my advice he'll marry her."--
- 214 A woman lives by intuition.Though my accountant shuns addition She has the rarest intuition.(And I myself can do addition.) Timidity in girls is nice.My cook is so afraid of mice.Now you'll admit it's very nice To feel your cook's afraid of
- 215 "Recite an instance, please," put in the dainty little teacher of domestic science."If a woman loses a st.i.tch, she'll unravel a ball of yarn trying to find it.""That's nothing, compared with what a man will do," s
- 216 7. Because men are men and women are women. We must not fly in the face of nature.8. Because pockets have been used by men to carry tobacco, pipes, whisky flasks, chewing-gum, and compromising letters, we see no reason to suppose that women would use them
- 217 "Yes," replied the patient yet firm woman. "I had to resign. n.o.body worried about who was going to fix up the sandwiches and salad and freeze the ice cream, but me. So I decided I was just a born worrier and was out of my cla.s.s." Y