jestbook

The best jestbook in the world is that which he dictated from memory, without referring to any book, on a day on which illness had rendered him incapable of serious study.

Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909

_The best jestbook in the world_ is that which he dictated from memory, without referring to any book, on a day on which illness had rendered him incapable of serious study.

Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography Mark Twain 1872

"Allowing that it is ever so beautiful, and ever so beneficial, were we to ride on the rigging of it at all times, would we not be constantly making a farce of it: It would be like reading the Bible and the jestbook, verse about, and would render the life of man a medley of absurdity and confusion."

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 1802