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The American Claimant

CHAPTER III
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No, Washington, I want his strikes to be mighty moderate ones the rest of the way down the vale." "Well, then, big strike or little strike, or no strike at all, here's hoping he'll never lack for friends--and I don't reckon he ever will while there's people around who know enough to--" "Him lack for friends!" and she tilted her head up with a frank pride-- "why, Washington, you can't name a man that's anybody that isn't fond of him.

I'll tell you privately, that I've had Satan's own time to keep them from appointing him to some office or other.

They knew he'd no business with an office, just as well as I did, but he's the hardest man to refuse anything to, a body ever saw.

Mulberry Sellers with an office! laws goodness, you know what that would be like.

Why, they'd come from the ends of the earth to see a circus like that.


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