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"I wint to a hero meetin' th' other night, Hinnissy, an' that's sthrange f'r me. Whin a man gets to be my age, he laves th' shoutin' f'r th' youth iv th' land, onless he has a pol-itical job. I niver had a job but wanst. That was whin I was precin't cap'n; an' a good wan I was, too. None betther.
"Well, iliction day come around; an' all th' imminent frinds iv good gover'mint had special wires sthrung into th' club, an' waited f'r th' returns. Th' first precin't showed 28 votes f'r Willie Boye to 14 f'r Flannigan. 'That's my precin't, says Willie. 'I wondher who voted thim fourteen? 'Coachmen, says Clarence Doolittle.
'We must be up an' doin', he says. 'Hol' on there, says wan iv th' comity. 'There must be some mistake in this fr'm th' sixth precin't, he says. 'Where's the sixth precin't? says Clarence. 'Over be th' dumps, says Willie. 'I told me futman to see to that. He lives at th' corner iv Desplaines an Bloo Island Av'noo on Goose's Island, he says.
"Wan," says th' officer. "Put me down," says Dorgan, "f'r th' tenth call," he says. This, gintlemen iv th' foorth precin't, he says, 'is Thomas Francis Dorgan, a man who, if ilicted, he says, 'victhry'll perch, he says, 'upon our banners, he says; 'an', he says, 'th' naytional honor will be maintained, he says, 'in th' county boord, he says.
"If I can sarve ye any time, sind worrd to Precin't XX, and I'll be proud to do it." As Keith and Lois walked slowly homeward, Lois gave him an account of her interview with Wickersham. Only she did not tell him of his kissing her the first time. She tried to minimize the insult now, for she did not know what Keith might do. He had suddenly grown so quiet.
They called him th' boy or-rator iv Healey's slough. "He planned th' campaign himsilf. 'I'll not re-sort, says he, 'to th' ordin'ry methods, he says. 'Th' thing to do, he says, 'is to prisint th' issues iv th' day to th' voters, he says. 'I'll burn up ivry precin't in th' ward with me iloquince, he says. An' he bought a long black coat, an' wint out to spread th' light. "He talked ivrywhere.
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