Some go so fur as to say that it takes in the Yankees but I don't go so fur.'" Samson joined in the good-natured laughter that followed.
"If you deal with some Yankees you take your life in your hands," he said.

"They can serve God or Mammon and I guess they have given the Devil some of his best ideas.

He seems to be getting a lot of Yankee notions lately." "There was a powerful prejudice in Kentucky against the Yankees," Abe went on.

"Down there they used to tell about a Yankee who sold his hogs and was driving them to town.

On the way he decided that he had sold them too cheap.