n the line he had adopted, and, at the next election, chose another
in his place. Thereupon, not discouraged, he turned his hand, with
national facility, to something else--following, successively, the
business of a small grocer, of a tavern keeper, and of an auctioneer.
Somehow or other, however, ill luck still followed him; and, finally,
he took to distributing the village newspaper, and sticking up
handbills. This gave him a taste for politics, and having acquired,
in his employment as auctioneer, a certain fluency of speech, he
cultivated it to that degree--in town meetings and on other public
occasions--that, in the end, there was not a man in the whole county
who could talk longer and say less. His fellow-citizens observing this
congressional qualification, and not knowing what else he was fit
for, have just elected him to Congress, partly because of this
accomplishment, and, partly, on account of his patriotic dislike of
"furriners," a sentiment which happens now to be popular. Both his
friends and enemies agree that he is destined to make a figure there;
and Mr. Thomas Armstrong--in compensation, perhaps, for a youthful
trick--has promised the Member of Congress a new hat and full suit
of black broadcloth, to enable him to appear in proper style on
Pennsylvania Avenue.

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