Jiglets: A series of sidesplitting gyrations reeled off—
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Jiglets - Walter Jones
Walter Jones
Jiglets: A series of sidesplitting gyrations reeled off—
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
JIGLETS
IMPORTANT
JIGLETS
ILLUSTRATED
STREET & SMITH · PUBLISHERS · NEW YORK
JIGLETS
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A SERIES OF SIDESPLITTING
GYRATIONS REELED OFF..
By
WALTER JONES
STREET & SMITH, Publishers
238 William Street, .. New York
Jiglets
IMPORTANT
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Dear Reader
:
While an artist has been engaged at a great expense to illustrate this volume of funniness, I want it distinctly understood that the illustrations are purely ornamental and are not intended to be diagrams of or keys to the jokes.
Between you and me, any one of the jokes—if you like it—is worth eleven times the price asked for the book. But, like the filigree work on a lemon merangue pie, the decoration may not make the pie any more palatable—but, it looks a whole lot better.
Confidentially yours,
Walter JonesJIGLETS
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Ha! Ha! Ha! I am astonished. I didn't expect to find more than ten persons in the house to-night, and I see there are eleven.
I want to thank that gentleman in the first row—the man with the vigorous growth of hair. It's such a relief to see a man with some hair, in the front row.
Say, I don't think I ever told you of the time I went with a Shakespearian company to tour the New England States.
Never knew I was an actor? Why, of course.
Wouldn't have thought it? Neither would I, if I didn't know to what extremes a man of my attainments may be driven, when his bread-basket is empty.
Well, I signed for a hundred a week and all expenses.
I got expenses all right, part of the time, and had to employ one of Pinkerton's men to look after the salary.
Up to yesterday, he hadn't found it; but no actor who goes out of New York town ever expects to get any salary, and I didn't.
I played Hamlet, Egglet, Eyelet, Omelet and To Let.
Every time I played Hamlet, I got an Egglet in the Eyelet, and I saved them up and made an Omelet, which caused such a disturbance among the other boarders, that my landlady told me my room was To Let.
I was in hard luck all around.
The worst blow that ever struck yours truly, was when we hit a little town in Maine called Haystack Mountain.
People there didn't appreciate good acting and the show went busted.
Well, the manager had an urgent engagement with a sick friend in New York, and he left us high and dry.
Some of the girls wept a little and asked how far it was to the railroad station.
I didn't ask how far it was to the station. I knew what to do. I began to walk.
Do you know, I never struck such a confounded lot of ties in all my life.
The railroad must have employed non-union help. You couldn't judge them at all. You'd strike a lot that were three feet apart and think they were all that way. You'd go to sleep until you struck one at a four-foot interval; then you'd wake up pretty quick and murmur gentle nothings about the company.
About the second day out, I landed at the town of Bridgewater. I walked into the only hotel of the place and thought I'd bluff 'em a little.
What are the rates?
says I.
Five dollars a day and up,
says the clerk.
Oh, come off,
says I, I'm an actor.
In that case,
says he, it's five dollars a day, down.
Toward evening, I came to a siding where a lot of box-cars were stalled. I crept on one of the trucks and went to sleep. I woke up to find I was traveling at the rate of forty miles an hour.
Suddenly I became aware that I had a visitor, and I knew my visitor had visitors, too—because I could hear him scratching.
Say,
says I, who the dickens are you and what do you want?
Look here, young feller,
says the visitor, I'm Cornelius Vanderbilt out for a spin in my new automobile, and I won't be disturbed by the likes of you.
Where do you come from?
says I.
Maryland,
says he. "My father is a great farmer down there. He