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Updated: November 17, 2025
"I'm ready to grow old when my time comes, an' if I get there by the road some have took before me, I guess I sha'n't be put under the sod by any vote o' town-meetin'. As I look back, seems to me 'most all them that's gone before us has had their uses to the last. Think o' gramma Jakes!
He handed the paper to Nute with orders to post it after the signatures of the two associate selectmen had been secured. Then to his surprise Hiram Look received an extremely benignant smile from the Cap'n. "You ain't objectin' any to the special town-meetin', then?" inquired Hiram, losing some of his apprehensiveness.
Under a similar law in the United States, Uncle Billy Bushnell or Ali Baba might live in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and own every foot of East Aurora, and all of us would then vote as Baron Bushnell or Sir Ali dictated, thus avoiding much personal animus at Town-Meetin' time. But no tenure can be made with death he can neither be bought, bribed, cajoled nor intimidated.
Town-meetin' days, if he got disappointed about the way things went, he'd lay 'em out in win'rows; and ef he hadn't been a church-member he'd been a real fightin' character. I was always 'fraid to have him roused, for all he was so willin' and meechin' to home, and set round clever as anybody. My Susan Ellen used to boss him same's the kitten, when she was four year old."
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