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Show NOT TO BE BE ATE X. A New Hampshire man and a man from Ohio chanced to meet at a public dinner in New York. The man from Ohio suggested to him of the Granite State that it might be advantageous to him to remove to tlio West, especially if he proposed to fallow the pursuit ot farmer. The Yankee could not see it; there was no titate in the Union equal to New Hampshire. He of the Buckeye Buck-eye State could not agree to this Ohio was interior to New Hampshire 1 in no respect; while in many respects' she was superior. The Yankee de manded to know a superior leature-The leature-The Buckeye commenced to enumer ate; but as last as he presented his claims of superiority, his antagonist antago-nist unheeitatingly swept them awa by bold and vigorous declarations to the contrary. At length when all other sources of argument had been exhausted, the Buckeye confidently observed ob-served . " You will at least allow that Ohio justly claims superiority over New Hampshire in point of the extent of her territory?" " No sir! " promptly and emphatically emphat-ically responded the Yankee. Your State spreads out because it is flat. Look at the mountains of New Hampshire Hamp-shire I Goodness mercy! Just roll 'em out flat and they'd make territory enough to cover up the whole of Ohio aud All up a big slice of Lake Erie." |
