Old American humor:conversation

This example of  old American humor is about the ‘pointlessness’ of conversation, and it was published in America in 1920.

It’s about an encounter between a sophisticated city person who is used to making conversation and a farmer who doesn’t see any need to make conversation.
In fact the farmer regards conversation as so pointless that he invents a pointless (but pretty funny) story.
When the sophisticated person asks if the story is true, the farmer contemptously says: “Shucks, that’s conversation.”
I think what the farmer is saying is, of course it isn’t true, it’s pointless – but so is ’social conversation’, or what we might call ’small talk.’