Intimate recollections of Joseph Jefferson . JOSEPH JEFFERSON 285 and Tom to have the smaller towns. Whentravelling with his own company from one largecity to another, Mr. Jefferson would often laughwhen the train stopped to take on water, andpointing to the tank would say, This must beone of Toms towns. In speaking of his fathers jokes at his earlyexperiences—which in many ways resembledthose of Mr. Jefferson—his son would say: Father used to tell a good one on me,—an experience I had in Ohio, in a town with thesingular name of Newcomerstown, where I hada very poor house. My father was at Pal
Intimate recollections of Joseph Jefferson . JOSEPH JEFFERSON 285 and Tom to have the smaller towns. Whentravelling with his own company from one largecity to another, Mr. Jefferson would often laughwhen the train stopped to take on water, andpointing to the tank would say, This must beone of Toms towns. In speaking of his fathers jokes at his earlyexperiences—which in many ways resembledthose of Mr. Jefferson—his son would say: Father used to tell a good one on me,—an experience I had in Ohio, in a town with thesingular name of Newcomerstown, where I hada very poor house. My father was at PalmBeach, and one day, while on a fishing trip, hemet a man who had told him he was a manu-facturer from Ohio, and had large business in-terests in Newcomerstown. By-the-by, Mr. Jefferson, said my fathersnew friend, I think that quite recently I wasable to render you a service. * Indeed! father said, 1 in what way, may Iask? 1 Why, a fellow came to my town a fewmonths ago, calling himself JefTerson. He hadthe assurance to stick up his b
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