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| In 1861, the Civil War started in the United States between the Northern and the Southern states. |
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| The war continued with great bitterness until 1865, when the Northerners were victorious. |
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| However, even today, many Southerners have not forgotten their defeat, or forgiven the Northerners. |
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| A few years ago, a party of American tourists were going round one of the battlefields of the Civil War |
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| with a guide who came from one of the Southern states. |
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| At each place, the guide told the tourists stirring stories about how a few Southern soldiers had conquered powerful forces of Northerners there. |
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| At last, one of the tourists, a lady who came from the North, stopped the guide and said to him, |
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| "But surely that the Northern army must have won at least one victory in the Civil War?" |
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| "Not as long as I'm the guide here, madam," answered the Southern guide. |
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