Jokes number : 16

Delivering a speech at a banquet on the

night of his arrival in a large city, a visiting minister told several

anecdotes he expected to repeat at meetings the next
day.

Because he wanted to use the jokes again, he requested the reporters to

omit them from any accounts they might turn in to their
newspapers.

A cub reporter, in commenting on the speech, ended his piece
with the
following: "The minister told a number of stories that cannot
be
published."