Mr. Davis was a Senator, you know, before he became a professional Southerner, and a Senator can out-talk any man—can make you think a horse-chestnut is a chestnut horse.
Andy Duncan Carolinian
Source
Lincoln in Frogmore (p. 151)
- work
- Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)
- year
- 2000
- locator
- p. 151
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