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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...
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...
Before the House of Representatives the bill duly came, was passed in toto, by 106-to-43.* Cock-a-hoop with success, "The Savior" strutted about Havana declaring: "We have a two-thirds majority. We can pass the bill over the President's veto...
...still more cock-a-hoop when a petition to impeach the President was signed by 118 Congressmen and 75,000 peasants surged into Havana, cheering Batista wildly, jeering the President and warming up toward Revolution...