Show A STICK C was a cute down easter a real live yankee always ready for a juke joke and hard bard to beat he was one day in a country barroom bar room down south oil where several persons were assembled when one of them thein said emr mr C if you go out and stick your penknife pen knife into inlo anything when you come back ill 1511 tell you what it tir kingin yet e cant do no sich thin 11 responded C ill be you von ten dollar 1 of it said the other aall walt I 1 gayther pies guess ill ii lake that bet here cap ting turning to the landlois land loid d hold stakes and PI elen een aust make half a saw horae in less time carlies deposited an X apiece ind C went on ins mission but in a short hort tune time returned saying wall nabor what is i it in in the handle replied the Sou themer as he reached out his hand for the stakes stake 3 guess cluess not jest iest wait awhile 71 said the yankee as he be held up the handle of his knife minus the blade 1 I the blade cant be the handle when its driven clean up in an old stump aside of yer rode out there jonathan of course won the wager and the southerner sloped to parts unknown amid coara i oars of laughter |