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Updated: May 17, 2025
Moses laughed when he first heard of it, for Fletcher was an easy-going farmer of the Methodist persuasion who was always in debt, and the other members of the ticket, so far as Moses could learn of it were remarkable neither for orthodoxy or solidity. The rumors persisted, and still Moses laughed, for the senior selectman was a big man with flesh on him, who could laugh with dignity.
"I wanted to ask you a question some advice!" gasped the secretary. "Haven't I told you to pick out your business and 'tend to it?" demanded the Cap'n, vibrating his lead-pencil. "But this is about spending some money." "Well, mebbe that's diff'runt." The selectman modified his tone. "Go ahead and stick in your paw! What's this first grab for?" he asked, resignedly.
The Jacksonians do not contest that seat, this year, and Isaiah Prescott, fourteenth child of Timothy, the Stark hero, father of a young Ephraim whom we shall hear from later, is elected. And now! Now for a sensation, now for disorder and misrule! "Gentlemen," says Deacon Lysander, "you will prepare your ballots for the choice of the first Selectman."
"Hand me that money!" he gritted, and Wixon, his eyes on the unhappy bird writhing in Cap'n Kidd's wicked grasp, made no demur. The showman took it, even as the maddened Reeves was clutching for the packet, tucked it into his breast pocket, and drove the second selectman back with a mighty thrust of his arm.
"That is just how he said it to me," confirmed "Cheerful Charles." "He said that it was a thing for the selectman to take hold of without a minute's delay. I wish you'd get your hat and start for my place now and forthwith." Cap'n Sproul paid no attention to the request. He was searching the face of Hiram with eyes in which the light was growing lurid.
If the truth were known Mr. Moore's ordinance was copied almost word for word from the printed pamphlet of ordinances in force in a certain town of the Middle West called Greensboro. Now, how did the selectman obtain that pamphlet, do you suppose? Yet Poketown, as a whole, looked about as forlorn and unsightly as it had when Janice Day first saw it. The improvement was not general.
There would be Hiram Higgins, postmaster and town constable, Walt Perkins, hotel man and town moderator, Lem Hodges, selectman, assessor and overseer of the poor, Nathan Elmes, likewise selectman, assessor and overseer of the poor, and Cale Rodgers, school committee-man and proprietor of the general store. Madison sauntered slowly along.
About an hour later, just as the selectman was sinking into a doze, he heard another explosion, this time far in the distance less a sound than a jar, as of something striking a mighty blow on the earth. "More dynamite!" he muttered, recognizing that explosive's down-whacking characteristic.
First Selectman Sproul was standing beside a granite post, pounding his fist on it with little regard to barked knuckles and uttering some perfectly awful profanity.
"Scooping in town orders, you mean!" "Taking them in the due course of my business, Mr. Selectman. I had a right to do it!" "And what did you do with those orders?" "I passed them on still in the course of my business." "And you don't know into whose hands they have come?" "Oh no!" The selectman stepped close to the carriage and brandished his gun.
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