New England Joke Lore: The Tonic of Yankee Humor
CHAPTER III.
LEGENDS OF THE ECCENTRIC.
“You Don’t Have to Yell at Me”--The Story of the Stolen Bundle of Hay--The Raid on Jim Green’s Pork Barrel--How Lote Platt Beat the Thunder Shower--The Tale of the Old-Fashioned “Settle”--The Lost Harrow Teeth--The Story of the Salt Shake--“Better Give Them to Some Poor Boy” 54-71