Wag Dogs Tales
January, 1965
The outrageous and obviously baseless charge that a pun is the lowest form of wit finally has been traced back to its source: a mean, shriveled Egyptian curmudgeon about 3000 B.C. who had no sense of humor whatever and furthermore was hard of hearing. He just sat on a bank of the Nile, glowering, licking his Cheops, and groaning every time his neighbor, a splendid chap named Ramses Cerf IV, let a pun drop.The inveterate punster learns early not to be disconcerted when his best efforts are met, a...
