TO MY MOTHER
CONTENTS
WILLIAM ADOLPHUS TURNPIKE
CHAPTER I
"What! never been to a political meeting; an' you living in a city. Back to the hamlet for you, boy; you're lost.
"You're not? You know where you live, and could find your way home in the dark? My, but you're cert'nly the quick actor when it comes to thinking.
"Sure I've been to more'n a dozen political meetin's. Ain't my Pa a member er the ex-ecutive of Ward Eighteen Conservative Club? He's a charter member, too. Don't he rent the parlor for a pollin' booth on votin' day, hire himself for a scrooteneer, and have my uncle Henry for constable?
"Your father wouldn't do them things, eh! Well, maybe he ain't never had the chance.