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Show Examples of Southern Ingenuity. Two southern congressmen wero telling some northern colleagues about geniuses they had known In tho south. Ono wns a young fallow who was fond of playing poker, but did not understand tho game any too well. Whenever ho "wont broke" ho would break Into a violent sneeze, which doubled him over tho tnble. "When In this attitude" said tho nnrrator, "tho young man would blto a couplo of dollars' worth of checks from soino-body's soino-body's stack and get Into the noxt pot." The other southerner chimed In: "Yes4 wo of tho south are nn Ingenious In-genious and resourceful people. I recall tho girl who went to Chicago nnd told everybody she met she waa a planter's daughter. She was too. Her father was the leading undertaker undertak-er of Lexington." |