After we had departed from the executive chamber I asked the gentleman who had taken us there if the governor was ill.
"No," he replied.

"All our governors look like that after they have been in office for a while." "From overwork ?" "No, from an overworked jest--the jest about 'what the Governor of North Carolina said to the Governor of South Carolina.' Every one who meets the governor thinks of that joke and believes confidently that no one has ever before thought of this application of it.

So they all pull it on him.

For the first few months our governors stand it pretty well, but after that they begin to break down.

They feel they ought to smile, but they can't.