NOT SO STUPID

I heard this latter-day story a good many years ago in Jackson County, at an associational meeting. It seems that a psychologist was spending his summer vacation there. He was a man of great sophistication and education — he’d published a number of books — and he was fascinated with mountain people. He considered himself several cuts above them, and he wasn’t quite certain how bright they were. They seemed to him to be ignorant and primitive, but he liked to listen to them talk. While he was out for his constitutional one morning, strolling along, he met an old mountain boy