Now I'll bet you a thousand dollars, I have corn that's growd so wonderful, you can't reach the top of it a standin' on your horse.' "'Done,' sais Southener, and 'Done,' sais the General, and done it was.
"'Now,' sais the Giniral, 'stand up on your saddle like a circus rider, for the field is round that corner of the wood there.' And the entire stranger stood up as stiff as a poker.

'Tall corn, I guess,' sais he, 'if I can't reach it, any how, for I can e'en a'most reach the top o' them trees.

I think I feel them thousand dollars of yourn, a marchin' quick step into my pocket, four deep.

Reach your corn, to be sure I will.

Who the plague, ever see'd corn so tall, that a man couldn't reach it a horseback.' "'Try it,' sais the Gineral, as he led him into the field, where the corn was only a foot high, the land was so monstrous, mean and so beggarly poor.
"'Reach it,' sais the Gineral.
"'What a damned Yankee trick,' sais the Southener.