"I'm afraid I don't quite understand. The only name I have is Josephine Spencer Francis and so far as I know it is thus written on my birth certificate."
"Birth certificate, ay? Where were you born? Speak up, don't mumble."
"Russia, without a doubt," muttered Assemblyman Brown.
"Youre sure it isnt Franciski or Franciscovitch? Or say, Finklestein?"
"My name is not Finkelstein, although I do not find myself terrified of that combination of syllables. I was born in Moscow—"
Another sensation. "I thought so!" screamed Judge Robinson triumphantly.
"Aha!" exclaimed Senator Jones profoundly.
"The leopard doesnt change his spots or the Red his (or her) color," asserted Assemblyman Brown.
"A sabatoor," yelled several of the spectators. Only Dr Johnson seemed unimpressed with the revelation; he smiled contentedly.
"—in Moscow, Idaho," concluded Miss Francis, picking her teeth with a flourish.