Mister Ron's Basement No. 1953

Thur June 30, 2011

Mister Ron's Basement No. 1953

We are reading some more of George Ade’s Turn-of-the-Century ‘Fables in Slang.’

In today’s 1904 Fable, a group of traveling salesmen swap gambling tall-tales in ‘The Fable of the Society-Trimmers and What Broke Up the Experience Meeting.’



Time: approx nine minutes

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