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"I must say," he declared, "that I don't see any reason for waitin'. If folks ain't here, that's their own fault. Mr. Moderator, I demand that the nominatin' go ahead." Tad was on his feet instantly. "I'm goin' to appeal," he cried, "to the decency and gratitude of the citizens of the town of Bayport.
Most of his hearers were silent now, on tiptoe of expectation. Dimick looked searchingly at Captain Cy. Then he sprang to his feet. "Order!" he shouted. "What's all this got to do with nominatin' for school committee? Ain't he out of order, Alvin?" The moderator hesitated. His habitual indecision was now complicated by the fact that he was as curious as the majority of those before him.
"The boss's trail is sure hard to anticipate," said Shorty. "There's the state goin' loco over him nominatin' him for governor, an' folks in Willets makin' more fuss over him than they did over the President the time he stopped for two minutes in town. Well, you'd think a man would be sort of fussed up himself, over that kind of a deal. But what does the boss do?
"They're mibby inveesible, but that's them for a' that. The name's on the picture. You can look yersel', if you dinna believe me." "Ay, Pepper's Ghost!" roars oot the Smith. "He waits on lots o' fowk aboot election times. He's juist a perfeck scunner, nominatin' fowk against their will, an' draggin' them into publicity when they wud far raither be kickin' up some ither kind o' a row."
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