[The Monikins by J. Fenimore Cooper]@TWC D-Link bookThe Monikins CHAPTER XXVI 1/26
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HOW TO ENACT LAWS--ORATORY, LOGIC, AND ELOQUENCE; ALL. CONSIDERED IN THEIR EVERY-DAY ASPECTS. Political oaths are very much the same sort of thing everywhere, and I shall say no more about our inauguration than simply to state it took place as usual.
The two houses were duly organized, and we proceeded, without delay, to the transaction of business.
I will here state that I was much rejoiced to find Brigadier Downright among the Bobees, the captain whispering that most probably he had been mistaken for an "immigrunt," and chosen accordingly. It was not a great while before the Great Sachem sent us a communication, which contained a compte rendue of the state of the nation.
Like most accounts it is my good fortune to receive, I thought it particularly long.
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