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The Gilded Age
Part 3.

CHAPTER XXVII
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Then you've got a little stretch along through Belshazzar that don't produce anything now--at least nothing but rocks--but irrigation will fetch it.

Then from Catfish to Babylon it's a little swampy, but there's dead loads of peat down under there somewhere.

Next is the Bloody Run and Hail Columbia country--tobacco enough can be raised there to support two such railroads.

Next is the sassparilla region.
I reckon there's enough of that truck along in there on the line of the pocket-knife, from Hail Columbia to Hark-from-the Tomb to fat up all the consumptives in all the hospitals from Halifax to the Holy Land.

It just grows like weeds! I've got a little belt of sassparilla land in there just tucked away unobstrusively waiting for my little Universal Expectorant to get into shape in my head.


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