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Podhammer didn't understand a word of the Constitution, he had the audacity to lecture on it; when he remembered that it was no uncommon thing for lecturers to talk of what they don't understand himself of Africa, for instance. "Be good enough to show us the room," said he. Pigworth turned majestically, and spoke like an oracle: "I do not indorse your sentiments.
"Ef you want only one apartment, I can give you the one occupied last week by the Hon. Mr. Podhammer. You have heard of him?" "Of course," responded Tiffles, to cut short the conversation. "He spoke in Washington Hall, there, on the Cons'tution. I told him so." Tiffles was about to ask why, if the Hon. Mr.
With every respect for the precedent established by Podhammer and associates, Marcus Wilkeson preferred to sleep alone, as he had done for twenty years. He privately expressed to the landlord a desire for one of the mattresses which had done duty during the convention. The landlord smiled, evidently regarding the request as eccentric and unreasonable, but nodded "All right."
Pigworth remarked: "Podhammer and Gineral Chetley slept in that air one. Colonel Hockensacker and Judge Waterfield in t'other. There was four other mattresses put down here that night, each of 'em with two of our most distinguished citizens on it. That convention was worth to me a good hundred dollars."
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