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 Jones