[Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookSketches New and Old CHAPTER VI 149/161
This form was common: How about that old woman you kiked of your premises which was beging.
POL.
PRY. And this: There is things which you have done which is unbeknowens to anybody but me.
You better trot out a few dols, to yours truly, or you'll hear through the papers from HANDY ANDY. This is about the idea.
I could continue them till the reader was surfeited, if desirable. Shortly the principal Republican journal "convicted" me of wholesale bribery, and the leading Democratic paper "nailed" an aggravated case of blackmailing to me. [In this way I acquired two additional names: "Twain the Filthy Corruptionist" and "Twain the Loathsome Embracer."] By this time there had grown to be such a clamor for an "answer" to all the dreadful charges that were laid to me that the editors and leaders of my party said it would be political ruin for me to remain silent any longer.
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