Excerpt from The American Jest Book: Being a Chaste Collection of Anecdotes, Bon Mots, and Epigrams, Original and Selected, for the Amusement of the Young and Old of Both Sexes The first of those two anecdotes, in which Mr. Cal houn is the hero, reminds me of a scene that occurred between two celebrated individuals in Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.