New England Joke Lore: The Tonic of Yankee Humor

CHAPTER IX.

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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