Show examples of southern ingenuity two southern congressmen were telling some northern colleagues about geniuses they had known fa the south one was a young fellow who was fond of playing poker but did not understand the game any too well whenever he went broke he would break into a violent sneeze which doubled him over the table when in this attitude said the narrator the young man would bite a couple ot dollars worth 0 checks from somebody s stack and get into the next pot the other southerner chimed in yes we of the south are an ingenious and resourceful people I 1 recall the girl who went to chicago and told everybody she met she was a planter s daughter she was too her father was the leading under tak er of lexington |