If you have ever been camping overnight you have probably spent time around a campfire telling jokes and stories to pass the time. That is the origin of this book-not campfire tales, but evening entertainment because that's all there was in the early 1900s. There were no televisions or DVDs. There was only family conversation where the interesting events of the day were related and probably embellished and most certainly used for teasing and joking. Many of these events have survived in the form of short anecdotes that live in the memories of the younger generation-like me. Here you will...