Toaster's handbook; jokes, stories, and quotations

PREFACE

Nothing so frightens a man as the announcement that he is
expected to respond to a toast on some appallingly near-by
occasion. All ideas he may ever have had on the subject melt
away and like a drowning man he clutches furiously at the
nearest solid object. This book is intended for such rescue
purpose, buoyant and trustworthy but, it is to be hoped, not
heavy.

Let the frightened toaster turn first to the key word of his
topic in this dictionary alphabet of selections and perchance ...