I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.
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What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once, and I'm reading it again. But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages.
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