Change Of Pace

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You have to be a native of  eastern North Carolina to appreciate this
little known
fact.   In a game of either stud or draw poker with nothing wild, and you
have a
winning hand of three tens, it is customary to spread out the three tens on
the
table and say"Thirty miles of railroad from Durham to Roxboro", which  was the
exact   N&W track mileage between the two towns.    Bill Sellers