New England Joke Lore: The Tonic of Yankee Humor
CHAPTER IX.
SOME EXPERIENCES OF THE YANKEE TRAVELING SALESMAN.
The Hopeful Young Beginner--The Sick Engineer in the Next Room--What Happened in the Hotel Barber Shop--The Salesman Who Was Given a “Warm Room”--The Story of the Itemized Expense Account--“Two Barrels”--The Old Man Who Was Inveigled Into a Poker Game 177-195