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Once to Every Man

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2017
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They had been waiting for him–the regulars. They had been waiting for him longer than Old Jerry knew. In the chair that had been the throne-seat of the town’s great man the servant of the Gov’mint sat and faced his loyal circle.

He had reached his climax–had hammered it home. Now he was rounding out his conclusion for those who hung, hungry-eyed, upon his eloquence.

“I ain’t begun to do it jestice yet,” he apologized. “I ain’t more’n jest teched on a good many things that needs to be gone into a trifle. Jest a trifle! It’ll take weeks and weeks to do that. But as I was a-sayin’–I got there! I got there just when I was needed almighty bad. I ain’t done that part of it jestice–but you’ll see it all in the papers in a day or two–Sunday supplement, maybe–and pictures–and colors, too, I reckon!”

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