I thought I had them for sure, because I knew more about my own failings than those other fellows did, and I enlarged upon them until I made myself out--Well, I heaped up the iniquity until I used to go home feeling that I was a good deal wickeder sinner than I ever thought I was before.

It did me good, too: I reformed.

I've been a better man ever since.
"Now, you'd a thought people would a considered me pretty fair authority about my own unfitness for the office, but hang me if the citizens of this county positively didn't go to the polls and elect me by about eight hundred majority.

I was the worst disappointed of any man you ever saw.

I had repeaters around at the polls, too, voting for the Democratic candidate, and I paid four of the judges to falsify the returns, so as to elect him.