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Show Southern as "She Is Spoke." Whllo on a trip through tho sparsely-settled sparsely-settled districts of Georgia a Northerner hired a colored native to guide him across country to his destination. Reaching the banks of a swift-flowing, unbrldged stream, the Northern man spotted a boat moored at the edge, and asked tho negro If he could row. "Ro boss? No, suh, Ah kain't ro', nohow." no-how." "Woll, how can I Kot across, then? Thero Isn't any bridge." "Wy, boss, Ah'Il tako yo acrost In no timo In that 'ore punt," answered tho negro. ne-gro. 4 "But I thought you said you couldn't row?" "No. suh. Ah kain't ro'." answered Sambo, rolling his eyes In ludicrous astonishment: aston-ishment: "but Ah kin git yo' acrost do rlbber all right, auh." The Northerner with somo tropldatlon and considerable curiosity stepped into tho boat, and the neicro rowed him swiftly and surely over the turbulent atream to tho other sldo, proving himself an experienced experi-enced oarsman "Why, Sambo, what did you mean by lying to mo?" asked tho perplexed traveler. travel-er. "I thought you said you couldn't row a boat?" Sambo oponed his mouth in a grin bo wide that ho appeared to whisper in his own ear as ho replied: "Wy, boss, Ah Buah thought you mean ro' ro' liko a Honl" Sunday Magazine. |