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Excerpt from The Poems and Prose Sketches of James Whitcomb Riley, Vol. 4: Pipes O' Pan at Zekesbury
The little town, as I recall it, was of just enough dignity and dearth of the same to be an ordinary county-seat in Indiana The Grand Old Hoosier State, as it was used to being howlingly referred to by the forensic stump orator from the Old stand in the court-house yard - a political campaign being the wildest delight that Zekes bury might ever hope to call its own.
Through years the fitful happenings of the town and its vicinity went on the same - the same! Annually about one circus ventured in, and vanished, and was gone, even as a passing trumpet-blast; the usual rainy season swelled the Crick, the driftage choking at the covered bridge, and backing water till the old road looked amphibious; and crowds of curious townsfolk straggled down to look upon the watery wonder, and lean awe-struck above it, and Spit in it, and turn mutely home again.
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