14Jan09

A wager was laid that it was a Yankee peculiarity to answer one question by another. To sustain the assertion a down-Easter was interrogated, "I want you," said the bettor, "to give me a straight-forward answer to a plain question."
"I kin do it, mister," said the Yankee.
"Then why is it that New Englanders always answer a question by asking one?"
"Du they?" was the Yankee reply.



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