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Show Yankee Understatement. A paragraph In the Companion about the mild retort of the man who was kicked by his horse reminded a subscriber of her grandfather's story of John Teele. John was a Yankee teamster who was trying one day to get a log down from the top of the pile, lie tied a rope to the log; then, that he might stop 1 lie log before it rolled too far, be tied the oilier end of the rope round his waist. John pulled; the log came down and snatched the teamster halfway down the mountain. Some weeks later John was able to sit up and discuss the accident with a sympathetic neighbor. "Yes, sir," said John, "I hadn't gone more'n ten rod b'fore I see where I'd missed it !" Youth's Companion. |