I can write, not read

Martinez gazed through the bars at the jailor.

"Can you read and write?" asked the jailor during the booking process.

"Write, not read," replied the prisoner.

"Write your name, then," the jailor instructed.

Martinez scrawled huge letters across the paper handed to him.

"What's that you wrote?" asked the warden.

"I don't know," replied the Mexican. "I told you, I can't read!"

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