Recently the attention of the smoke-room company aboard an Atlantic liner was held by an assertive Chicagoan raconteur, whose tales, full of invidious hits at denizens of St. Louis, created much laughter. When the Chicagoan had finished, a St. Louis gentleman, who had been quietly listening, took up the running. "Say," he commenced ; "guess I opinionated you a Lakesider vurry first day aboard." "Haow ?" questioned the former speaker. "Sat close to you at lunch, and noticed your ax'nt." "Huh ! my ax'nt ?" exclaimed the man from the porcine city. "Why, first day aboard I grubbed entirely by myself, and spoke nary a word to a soul." "Jes so," rejoined the other ; "but I could hear you eat'n' pic."
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2206, 1 August 1910, Page 7
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