" While visiting in tho South, a traveller chanced upon a resident of a sloepy hamlet in Tennessee. Aro you a native of the town?" asked the trveller. "Am I n what?" languidly asked the man, as he roso to a sitting posture. Are you a native of this town?" " Wnat's that?"_ "I asked whether you wero a native of this place?" Suddenly there appeared at the open door of the cabin .the man's wife, tall, gaunt, and saHow. After carefully scrutinising tho intruder, she said: "Ain't you got no sen.sea-tall, Ira? He means was yo' Jivin' heah when you was born or was yo' horn after you begun ItViii' heah. Now answer. Jiim."-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10886, 29 September 1913, Page 7
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