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Chester tightened up his reins so suddenly that his horse reared, while Jethro calmly climbed into the seat beside him and they drove off. It was some time before Joe had recovered sufficiently to arise and repair to the scene of operations on the road. It was Joe who brought the astounding news to the store that evening. Chester was Jethro's own candidate for senior Selectman!
Slipping his hat to one side in the jaunty manner characteristic of young America, he began to puff very gravely at a cigar the pedler handed him, frequently taking it from his mouth, as he had seen older persons do, to knock away the ashes. Nothwithstanding his alarm, his love of fun made him enjoy this little stratagem, in which he bore his part successfully. The selectman eyed him intently.
The deacon choked, and tears of bitterness stood in his eyes, and there came a silence only broken by the surging of the sleet as he rapped on the table. "Seventy-five votes have been cast for Jethro Bass sixty-three for Moses Hatch. Necessary for a choice, seventy and Jethro Bass is elected senior Selectman."
In the early flush of an August morning about a week after the departure of the hypnotic marvel and his companions, a mutual impulse seemed to actuate Selectman Sproul and Hiram Look at a moment surprisingly simultaneous. They started out their back doors, took the path leading over the hill between their farms, and met under the poplars at a point almost exactly half-way.
"I've built our end of the road to the town-line accordin' to the line of survey that's best for this town, and now if Vienny ain't got a mind to finish their road to strike the end of our'n, then let the both of 'em yaw apart and end in the sheep-pastur'. The public ain't runnin' this. It's me the first selectman. You are takin' orders from me and you want to understand it.
"The perfessor," bawled Constable Nute, unable to get his team very near the selectman on account of the upheaved condition of the road, "has jest arranged with me to hire the town hall for a week, and he wants to arrange with the selectmen to borrow the use of the graveyard for a day or so."
"I'm callin' it as quick as the law will let me and happy to do so," graciously returned the first selectman. Hiram took off his tall hat with the air of one who has been invited to remain, after anticipating violent rebuff. "You know, don't you, what the voters want this special meetin' for?" "Sartin sure," cried the Cap'n.
Says it ain't supposed to fall on the committees to pay for what the town's beholden for." "Let 'em go ahead and settle it to suit all hands," remarked the first selectman, amiably. "As the feller used to sing in the dog-watch: "'Says Jonah, addressin' the whale, "I wish You'd please take notice that I like fish." Says the whale to Jonah, "It's plain to see That you are goin' to agree with me.""
It will give the town a good name. Now, that money is goin' to be spent! I've made you chairman of the whole general committee as first selectman. You'll have the principal say as to how the money is goin' to be spent. As long's it's goin' to be spent that ought to be some satisfaction to you."
Graves, my circles down here are consider'ble smaller, but they suit me. I'm worth twenty-odd thousand myself, not in a year, but in a lifetime. I'm selectman and director in the bank and trustee of the church. When I holler 'Boo, the South Denboro folks some of them, anyhow set up and take notice.
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