The Jester

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Excerpt from The Jester: Containing Nearly One Thousand Anecdotes, Conundrums, and WitticismsIndustry must prosper, as the man said when holding the baby, while his wife chopped wood.A wag hearing that in 1830 the brewers eon sumed seven hundred thousand quarters of barley less than were used in 1730, and yet made a mil lion barrels more beer, asked very pertinently which had grown smaller, the barrels or the beer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.