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Show Lost Their Opportunity. "I was sitting in the smoking compartment com-partment next to two men who were discussing the advisability of buying themselves a drink. One of them called the porter and asked him if it was possible to purchase liquor in that part of the country." "Yes, sah," he repllied, "you kin get It here in New Mexico, but not in Arizona." Ari-zona." So the two began to plan what they would have. After a number of tentative tenta-tive suggestions, they decided on a pair of highballs. "Porter," ordered the one who had first brought up the subject, "bring us two highballs with ginger ale." "Can't have It," replied the porter. "It's against the law, sah." "Why, didn't you just tell me a moment mo-ment ago that we could?" "Yes, I told you that, but while y'all was makin' up yo' minds we done crossed the line into Arizona." |