It is not so if he has told a clean story.

He is satisfied with the laughter he has caused and with himself.
Frank Merriwell was called a good fellow.

It was not often that he told a story, but when he did, it was a good one, and it was clean.

He had an inimitable way of telling anything, and his stories were all the more effective because they came at rare intervals.

He did not cheapen them by making them common.
And never had anybody heard him tell a story that could prove offensive to the ears of a lady.
Not that he had not been tempted to do so.