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Motif

The large loaves need a large oven. Parson says that the loaves with which Jesus fed the people in the wilderness were as large as the mountains. The mason asks what kind of oven they were baked in.

Humor. · Humor of social classes. · Humor dealing with professions. · Jokes on parsons. · view the constellation · filed as X434.1

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  • general Type 1834*.
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Filed under The parson put out of countenance.

Filed beside it
Grace before meat. The parson asks the boy: "What does your father say when you begin to eat?" Boy: "You young devil, etc."
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