And a few days after the convention adjourned Bill was standing talking to Joe Snowden about the election, and Bill happened to remark, 'I've got to win.' Mrs.Martin was going by at the time; and as Bill was speaking very rapidly, he pronounced it like this: 'I've got t'win;' and Mrs.Martin thought he was telling Snowden that he'd got _twins_.

And Mrs.Martin, just like all women about such matters, at once went through the village spreading the report that Mrs.Slocum had twins.
"So, of course, there was a fuss right off; and the boys said that as Bill was a candidate, and a mighty good fellow anyhow you took him, it'd be nothing more than fair to congratulate him on his good luck by getting up some kind of a public demonstration from his fellow-citizens.

Well, sir, you never saw such enthusiasm.

The way that idea took was wonderful, and all hands agreed that we ought to have a parade.

So they ran up the flags on the hotels and the town-hall, and on the two schooners down at the wharf, and Judge Twiddler adjourned the court over till the next day, and the supervisors gave the public schools a holiday and got up a turkey dinner for the convicts in the jail.
"And some of the folks drummed up the brass band, and it led off, with Major Slott following, carrying an American flag hung with roses.