[Heart’s Desire by Emerson Hough]@TWC D-Link bookHeart’s Desire CHAPTER V 9/48
Four overall factories and a reaper plant. Population six thousand, and increasin' satisfactory.
Hon.
Charles D. Bastrop, M.C., from this district, on the straight Republican ticket for the last three hundred years; world without end.' "Then the train would pull into this station to the sad sweet notes of the oompah horn, and the delegation of leadin' citizens would file in behind the car, and the first leadin' citizen would get red in the face with his Welcome talk, while we four slaves of the people were hustling the President's speech to the depot telegraph wire before he said it. People's Choice, he stands on the back platform with one hand in his bosom, and says he: 'Fellow-citizens of Basswood Junction, I am proud to see before me this large and distinguished gatherin' of our noble North American fauna.
My visit to your pleasant valley is wholly without political significance.
These noble et cetera; these smilin' et cetera; these beautiful et cetera, fill me with the proudest emotions of et cetera.
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