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The little town, as I recall it, was of just enough dignity and dearth of the same to be an ordinary county seat in Indiana "The Grand Old Hoosier State," as it was used to being howlingly referred to by the forensic stump orator from the old stand in the court-house yard a political campaign being the wildest delight that Zekesbury might ever hope to call its own.
For some years prior to this odd experience I had been connected with a daily paper at the state capital; and latterly a prolonged session of the legislature, where I specially reported, having told threateningly upon my health, I took both the advantage of a brief vacation, and the invitation of a young bachelor senator, to get out of the city for a while, and bask my respiratory organs in the revivifying rural air of Zekesbury the home of my new friend.
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