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...irrepressibly energetic man whose normal gait is a gallop, Javits has been a Senator for nearly ten years. Thus, though that exalted station might once have seemed impossibly remote for a poor boy born in what Javits fondly describes as "the urban counterpart to a log cabin???a janitor's flat in a tenement," its ambit today seems too confining for his vaulting talents and ambitions. Having never previously stood still in any one place for so long, Javits is pawing the track and sniffing the air in quest of a higher prize?a place on his party...
There is old Maum Hannah, squatter, who asked the Lord what to do when a white-trash gentleman built a house on her land and was going to make her tear down her cabin???who got a sign from the Lord, and burnt that house to white fine ashes, such as fell out of her corncob pipe when she prayed. There is Killdee who ploughed on Green Thursday?Ascension Day?the day Jesus went back to God, wherefore he expected to be scourged, and was, for that night his little girl, Baby Rose, was burnt to death in the cookfire...
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