"I admit I got to likin' the game.

I think, too, I did get to understandin' what news was.

So one day, when I was mighty tired of the four-factory, railroad-centre, leadin'-citizen business, I mixed up the speeches on the Honorable Secretary between stations." Dan Anderson blew a faint wreath of blue smoke up toward the blue sky and remained silent for a time.
"The next particular Basswood Junction happened to be a Democratic minin' town, instead of a Republican agricultural community.

It didn't have any overall factories at all.

They didn't relish bein' told that they had voted the straight Republican ticket ever since Alexander Hamilton, and that they had given to the public that distinguished citizen, James K.Blinkensop, when the man they had really given to the public was Dan G.Healy.