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gather—just like may other group—they talk shop. With mil the wild tales, the Rappahannock printers had one story that could top them all! We had printed blank ballots! That’s no wild story, either, for we could prove it.
Two years ago, (when the date arrived for someone to qualify for a town mayor or councilman, no one bothered. In fact, there had been a time—so the tales go—that the town even forgot to have an election. The same town government just served until another election day rolled around and they remembered the date.
With all the hullabaloo raised over this present government, the olden days of calm and quiet have passed into oblivion.
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Every now and then somebody says Americans can’t spell as well as they used to, and asks why. The fact seems to be that interest in spelling comes and goes.
The founding fathers, judging by their uncorrected letters, were not interested; they spelled every which way. Lincoln in his early writings was still making slips in spelling: “begining” beginning, for example. But remember, he did not have access to enormous budgeted public schools. •Noah Webster, (whose spelling book sold by the millions, helped
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