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Updated: May 10, 2025
Dess tell me dat? But dere's 'nough quality dis here side de fam'ly to keep yer a good Dem'crat, honey " and Aunt M'randa, muttering, glared at Tom. For Emily Louise was gazing into a gulf wider than the river rolling between home and papa, a gulf called war; nor did Emily Louise know, as Aunt M'randa knew, that it was a baby's little fists clutching at Aunt Cordelia that had bridged that gulf.
Hurlbut, passing the place one night at the end of the session, heard the quavering, drunken voice, and paused in the darkness to listen. "I tell you, fellow-countrymen, I've voted Dem'cratic tick't forty year, live a Dem'crat, die a Dem'crat! An' I'm's honest as day is long!"
"I guess you wouldn't think it was so awful funny if you hadn't gone an' stuck that horse onto Deakin Perkins an' I don't see how you done it." "Mebbe that is part of the joke," David allowed, "an' I'll tell ye th' rest on't. Th' next day I hitched the new one to th' dem'crat wagin an' put in a lot of straps an' rope, an' started off fer the East road agin.
I skipped Greeley, fur he warn't no Dem'crat; an' I voted fur Tilden an' Hancock an' Cleveland; but when it come to votin' fur a cyclone fr'm N'braska, jest wind an' nothin' more, I kicked over the traces." "Then you don't believe in the divine ratio of sixteen to one?" "Young man, silver an' gold come out'r the ground, jes' lik' corn an' wheat.
The elder went down an' bought a pound o' powder an' had it done up in a brown paper bundle, an' put it with his other stuff in the bottom of his dem'crat wagin; but it come on to rain some while he was ridin' back, an' the stuff got more or less wet, an' so when he got home he spread it out in a dishpan an' put it under the kitchen stove to dry, an' thinkin' that it wa'n't dryin' fast enough, I s'pose, made out to assist Nature, as the sayin' is, by stirrin' on't up with the kitchin poker.
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