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Show The laundress's rival tried desperately des-perately to find someone who could dispute the washwoman's assertion that she had blue blood in her veins. "Could be," said one of those asked, "all the women on her side of the family have used washing - blue for eight generations." genera-tions." Two very distinguished looking Southern gentlemen met on the street one morning after having attended a party the night before. The major greeted his ranking officer with all the respect and solemnity that the occasion demanded. de-manded. "Colonel," he said, "how do you feel, suh?" The colonel's reply was just a bit on the brusque side. "Major," he declared a little th.ckly, "I feel like hell, suh, as any Southern gentleman should, suh, at this hour of the morning." A social climber, trying to impress im-press a prominent member of a Club she had just joined, traced her ancestry all the way back to Julius Caesar. The prominent member admitted admit-ted that went back quite a distance dis-tance but pointed out that the pedigree of her own family filled tix pages of parchment and in the middle was a notation, "About his time the world, was created.'' |