Jeremy Hampden has a large circle of friends and is very popular at parties.
Everybody admires him for his fine sense of humor - everybody, that is, except
his six-year-old daughter, Jenny. Recently, one of Jeremy's closest friends
asked him to make a speech at a wedding reception. This is the sort of thing
that Jeremy loves. He prepared the speech carefully and went to the wedding
with Jenny. He had included a large number of funny stories in the speech and,
of course, it was a great success. As soon as he had finished, Jenny told him
she wanted to go home. Jeremy was a little disappointed by this but he did as
his daughter asked. On the way home, he asked Jenny if she had enjoyed the
speech. To his surprise, she said she hadn't. Jeremy asked her why this was so
and she told him that she did not like to see so many people laughing at him!&