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"If you think it's a job to set any man to, you'd better go and do it yourself," retorted Snell, bridling. "You know as well as I do, s'leckman, that so long as 'Liah has been let alone he's only been a plain thief, and we've got along with him here in town all right onpleasant and somewhat expensive, like potater-bugs.
"Mister S'leckman," he shouted, "I want to introduce you to Perfessor Perfessor I ain't got your name yit so I can speak it," he said, turning to his passenger. "Professor Derolli," prompted the passenger, flicking his cigarette ash.
Aholiah Luce came walking into the village, spent, forlorn, and draggled. She went straight to the town office, and seated herself in front of the musing first selectman. "I've come to call on for town help," she said. "I haven't got scrap nor skred to eat, and northin' to cook it with. You've gone to work and put us in a pretty mess, Mister S'leckman.
"I want you to understand, S'leckman Sproul, that there are two other s'leckmen in this town, and you can't run everything, even if you've started in to do it." It was pointed reference to the differences that existed in the board of selectmen, on account of Cap'n Sproul's determination to command.
Result: the two pieces of highway came to the town line and there stopped doggedly. There were at least a dozen rods between the two ends. To judge from the language that the two town officers were now exchanging across the granite post, it seemed likely that the roads would stay separated. "Our s'leckman can outtalk him three to one," confided one of the Smyrna supporters to Constable Nute.
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