FOREWORD

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I Showing Some General Characteristics

CHAPTER II Relating to Certain Conjugal Infelicities

CHAPTER III Legends of the Eccentric

CHAPTER IV Family Characteristics and Small Town Life

CHAPTER V The Yankee Trading Instinct and Some Amusing Examples

CHAPTER VI Domestic Animals and Their Part in Legendary Humor

CHAPTER VII Legends of Rural Spooks

CHAPTER VIII Tales of Rural Lawyers and the Courts

CHAPTER IX Some Experiences of the Yankee Traveling Salesman

CHAPTER X Traditions of the Rural Church

CHAPTER XI Tales of Rural Thrift

CHAPTER XII Cheerful Tales of Neighborly Intercourse

CHAPTER XIII Sad Tales of Pre-Prohibition Days.

CHAPTER XIV Tales of the Farm Hired Man

New England Joke Lore
The Tonic of Yankee Humor

BY
ARTHUR G. CRANDALL
Author of “Optimistic Medicine”



PHILADELPHIA
F.A. DAVIS COMPANY, Publishers
1922

COPYRIGHT, 1922
BY
F. A. DAVIS COMPANY

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STALWART SONS OF NEW ENGLAND

WHOSE ABILITY TO THINK STRAIGHT, COMBINED WITH AN UNRUFFLED POISE AND NEVER FAILING SENSE OF HUMOR, HAS ENABLED THEM AND THEIR DESCENDANTS TO TAKE A LEADING PART IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR GLORIOUS COUNTRY