That every bachelor of easy means has an illicit affair with a grass widow in a near-by city and is the father of several illegitimate children.
§396
That a country editor receives so many presents of potatoes, corn, rutabagas, asparagus, country ham, carrots, turnips, etc., that he never has to buy any food.
§397
That whenever news reached him of another Federal disaster Abraham Lincoln would laugh it off with a very funny and often somewhat smutty story, made up on the spot.
§398
That George Washington died of a heavy cold brought on by swimming the Potomac in the heart of winter to visit a yellow girl on the Maryland shore.
§399
That all negroes who show any intelligence whatever are actually two-thirds white, and the sons of United States Senators.