Wednesday, July 14, 2010

A Yankee and a Southerner were playing poker on a steamboat.

“I haven’t seen an ace for some time,” remarked the Southerner.

Wall I guess you haint,” said the Yankee, “but I can tell you where they are: One of them is up your shirt sleeve there, and the other three are in the top of my butes.”

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4

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