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They were gay, even jaunty. It was in this very epoch that the verse was born which for many years sang blithely from the top of the first column sang of Denney's public-spirited optimism as to Slocum County and the Little Country. Keep your eye on Slocum, She's all right! Her skies are clear and full of cheer, And all her prospects bright.
I must have been troublesome, for they gave me the drug of dreams and I awakened peacefully. I watched the field surgeons gather about a young line officer brought in with a shot through his neck. For the better probing of the wound they removed his head and gave it to me to hold. Seeing that it was Solon Denney's head, I was seized with a mood of jest I would hide it and make Solon search.
Long I mused upon this, but at last my pipe was out, and I awoke from that troubled spot where God's little creatures had clashed in their puny rage awoke to know that this was my day to wander in another world the dream world of children, where everything is true that ought to be true. Solon Denney's home, in charge of Mrs.
But Solon Denney's spirit, to the best of Little Arcady's belief, soared aloft to realms of pure sunlight. My knowledge of subsequent events that day was gained partly by word of mouth and partly by observations which I was permitted to make. To the hotel Solon conducted his charges, handing them from the 'bus with a flourish that seemed to confer upon them the freedom of the city.
Besides, there had been talk of disbarring him from the practice of his profession, and I, as a lawyer, had been urged to instigate that proceeding. Unquestionably there was ground for it. But now this random pleasantry of Solon Denney's set our minds to working in another direction.
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