Have you ever heard of these three jokes? Have you ever heard of these three jokes, the one about the English private soldier who was placed under the shower bath, the one about the jockey who found the penny, and the one about the travelling salesman who arrived at five o'clock in the morning at Marseilles when the mistral was blowing? Considering that the protagonist was an American, I guess maybe his jokes are very popular in English society. So have you ever heard of them? Thanks. It’s from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Chapter Seven).the context: They poured me more wine and I told the story about the English private soldier who was placed under the shower bath. Then the major told the story of the eleven Czecho-slovaks and the Hungarian corporal. After some more wine I told the story of the jockey who found the penny. The major said there was an Italian story something like that about the duchess who could not sleep at night. At this point the priest left and I told the story about the travelling salesman who arrived at five o'clock in the morning at Marseilles when the mistral was blowing.