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For cussed, crisscross contrariness, give me a moss-back Democrat from a one-boss, one-man town like Suffolk. I'm a-goin' to see the show." "G-goin' to the show, be you, Amos?" said Jethro. "Yes, I be," answered Amos, bitterly. "I hain't agoin' nigh the house to-night." And with this declaration he departed. "I wonder if he really is going?" queried Mr. Merrill looking at the ceiling.
Such a rain had never been known to fall not in the memory of the oldest moss-back in the village if any such ancient inhabitant existed. Twelve hours of it had made rivers of the streets, quagmires of the roads, and covered the crossings ankle-deep with mud.
I am a Democrat an old Democrat, but I'm damned if I'm a moss-back. I don' allow any young man to get ahead of me on radicalism. I stand for progress; and because I know Bradley Talcott stands for progress, I second his nomination. His canvass will be an honor to himself, and a historical event in this county." Amos Ridings arose. "Mr. Chairman, I second that nomination as a Granger-Republican.
We all know; yet here we are at it again. We have an old moss-back Jacksonian who snorts and howls because there is a bath-tub in the State House.
But all that's no reason for being a moss-back, a back number, for not having any fun to be glued to the ancestral rock like a lot of old limpets....And it should preserve us from being snobs," she added. "Snobs?" "The 'I will maintain' sort, as Aileen puts it." "Don't quote that dreadful child to me. I haven't an atom of snobbery in my composition.
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