. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . en of abilitv aretoo long-winded, and repeat themselves tiresomelv, and there arethose who indulge in spread-eagleism. The latter is particularlyineffective. A few short, sharp sentences are the rule. Slips ingrammar are not infrequent, even from the town-fathers ; andwhile the nasal New Endand drawl that makes down daovvn III. TOWN-MEETING 52 is- not always prominent, it is never altogether absent in thespeeches of the clay. ICvery town has its cliques. There are certain men the cliqueswant elected, certain measures they want carried. In some townsan
. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . en of abilitv aretoo long-winded, and repeat themselves tiresomelv, and there arethose who indulge in spread-eagleism. The latter is particularlyineffective. A few short, sharp sentences are the rule. Slips ingrammar are not infrequent, even from the town-fathers ; andwhile the nasal New Endand drawl that makes down daovvn III. TOWN-MEETING 52 is- not always prominent, it is never altogether absent in thespeeches of the clay. ICvery town has its cliques. There are certain men the cliqueswant elected, certain measures they want carried. In some townsand in some years they do not make themselves very much felt,but again they occasion very sharp lighting. There are towns socomposed that there are two parties with opposing interests ; forinstance, where there is a farm region and a manufacturing villagein the same township, or two farm villages of about the same gets the upper hand neglects the other part, and ap-propriates and spends money for its own particular Thii IliKin There is no lack of on town-meeting day in suchplaces ; and some of the more excitable men will shake fists andcall names, and make it necessary for their friends to restrain -, ««A BOOK OF COUNTRY •^^ CLOUDS AND SUNSHINE them by laying hold of their coat-tails. This sort of thingawakens intense enthusiasm on the part of the audience at theback of the room. A town is very apt to have one or two chronic objectors orcranks in it. They make business lag, but they usually amusethe crowd. There are old-fashioned men, with queerly trimmedbeards, and long hair combed down in front of their ears after thestyle of fifty years ago, who denounce change, and think the townshould pattern after the ways and economics of the time whenthey were young. They especially despise any new-fangled no-tions about schools, and think boarding around for the teachers,and plenty of licking for the scholars, and a continuation of allc
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