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WOODMYTH & FABLE So 



to run them came up. There were sev- 

 eral aspirants, but old Sims led the meet- 

 ing, expressing the majority and crushing 

 the minority in a brief but satisfactory 

 speech : 



"Fust of all, boys, I 'm opposed to 

 this yer centerin' of everything in one 

 place. Now^ that 's jest what hez been 

 the rooin of England; that is why Lon- 

 don ain't never amounted to nothin* — 

 everything at London. London is Eng- 

 land; England is London. If London *s 

 took, England 's took, says I, an' that hez 

 been her rooin. 



**The idee of House o' Lords an* 

 House o' Commons in the same town ! 

 It ain't fair, I tell ye; it 's a hog trick. 

 Why did n't they give some little place 

 a chance instead o' buildin' up a blastin' 

 monopoly like that? Same thing hez 



