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Excerpt from The Spoils of the Park: With a Few Leaves From the Deep-Laden Note-Books
Soon another, also not holding an office, but president of a ward club, and as such having a certain familiarity with prac tical politics, called to advise me that wanted an under standing that I would give him fifteen per cent Of my patron age. N ot having it, he feared that would throw his weight against me. I need not go on. When one of the mayor's friends in the city-hall understood that I seriously meant to be my own master, or defeated, he exclaimed, Why, the man must be a fool!
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