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Television or Thermos Botfle

Two colored brothers down in the Mississippi Delta, were eating their noonday lunches of soda biscuits, lasses, and bacon grease, and they got to talking about modern inventions, such as airplanes, radio, television, and other wonders.

"Boy," said one of them, .,we sho got some wonderful things in dishere worl' right now, but dey aint none of em to compare wid de television. you can sit right in you home and see folks away off, and hear dem talk, an sing, an watch em whilst dey is doing hit. Ah tells you dis television is de mos' wonderful invention folks has evah seed."

Said the other: "Television is okay, sho nuff, but hit aint de mos' wonderful invention in de worl'! Nossuh, hit sho aint."

Said the first: "You means t, tell me you knows a inven_ tion what is greatah dan television?',

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"Suttinly Ah does," positively said the other.

"Den, boy, Ah axes yori whut it am. Dass whut Ah wants to know."

"My fren', whut Ah refers to is a Thermos bottle. you heahs rne? Ah means a Thermos bottle. Stan' youse,f still, boR whilst Ah ilucidates dishere bottle ! you takes dis bottle in de mawnin' an you fillshit wid hot coffee. Tomorrow mawnin' you takes de lid off dishere Thermos bottle, an boy, de cofiee jes as hot as when you puts hit in de bottle. Den you takes de hot coffee out of de bottle, an you fills de bottle wid froze ice cream an you puts de coveh back on. Tomorrow mawnin' you takes de li.d off dis Thermos bottle, an Ahm tellin' you de truf, boy, de ice cream is jes as hard ah cold as when you puts hit in de bottle. Yassuh. Sho is. Dishere Thermos bottle keeps de hot coffee hot. It keeps de cold ice cream cold. De only thing Ah don'unde'stan is, HOW DOES DISHERE THERMOS BOTTLE KNOW WHEN TO DO WHICH? DASS WHUT AHD LAK T'KNOW.''