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Show Southern as "Sha la Spoke." While on a trip through the 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 swlft-flowtng, unbrldged stream, the Northern man spotted a boat moored at the edge, and asked the negro If he could row. "Ro'. boss? No, suh, Ah kaln't ro', nohow." no-how." "Well, how can I get across, thea? There Isn't any bridge." "Wy, boss, Ah'H take yo aorost In no time In that 'ere punt," answered the negro. ne-gro. "But I thought you said you couldn't rowr "No, suh. Ah kaln't ro ." snswered Sambo, rolling his eyes In ludiarous astonishment; aston-ishment; "but Ah kin git yo' acrost de rlbber all right, auh." The Northerner with some trepidation and considerable curiosity stepped Into the boat, and the negro rowed him swiftly and surely over the turbulent stream to the other side, proving himself an experienced experi-enced oarsman. "Why, Sambo, what did you mean by lying to me?" asked the perplexed traveler. travel-er. "I thought you said you couldn't row a boat V , Sambo opened hie mouth in a grin so wide that he appeared to whisper In his own ear as he replied: "W'y, boss. Ah suah thought you mean ro' ro' like a Hon!" Sunday Magaalne. |