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...Their money could apparently buy everything. . . . Their accent was beginning to be an asset, even to the English themselves, in truly 'smart' circles; it was beginning-you listened in that night?-to be heard in the voice of the young tribal God himself. . . . They were cock-a-hoop, and since Edward's accession getting insolent and out-of-hand. There was but one more world to conquer. The first woman to sit in the ancient Commons was a divorced American.* why not then also...
Phinizy County, Tenn. (it is not on the map) was a rough place in some ways before it got civilized. In those days the first citizen was Old Bas Younger, who brought his clan to settle Hoop Pole Ridge and was he-coon there till he died at 100. Old Bas died while he was making a political oration on the Fourth of July and got too excited cussing the Republican candidate, Abe Lincoln. Phinizy County had begun to get a little sissified by the time Young Bas took over the he-coonship at 70. Richard Whiting, who bought land...
Even after Squire Whiting became the acknowledged boss of Phinizy County, things went on, especially on Hoop Pole Ridge. Little Bas Younger, the current he-coon, got licked in an argument in front of the courthouse, and that night his opponent's house burned down. Squire Whiting was getting ready to turn over the county to his successor, but he wanted things shipshape, so he rode out to Hoop Pole Ridge and shot Little Bas. The inhabitants of the Ridge let Little Bas lie. Said one of them to the heir apparent, "I reckon you air the he-coon...
...well established as a legitimate heir of Joel Chandler Harris. The Three-Headed Angel is a new departure for him, not only because it is not laid in the deep South but because it has only one Negro character. Most readers will consider that his Hoop Pole Ridgers make up for the loss. Author Bradford swears he has made up the names of all his characters. Mersery Pillow's mother called her that after the planet Mercury. Brigadier-General Bushrod Johnson Potter was what Mersery and Lafe called their firstborn...
Harvard is the only large college in the country which still designates basketball as a minor sport. Yale, too, has kept her hoop artists in the minor league, but reliable authorities agree that basketball will be a major there before the start of the next season...