Whenever the Buffs and Blues met together at public meeting…

Whenever the Buffs and Blues met together at public meeting… disputes and high words arose between them… Everything in Eatanswill was made a party question. If the Buffs proposed to new skylight the market-place, the Blues got up public meetings, and denounced the proceeding; if the Blues proposed the erection of an additional pump in the High Street, the Buffs rose as one man and stood aghast at the enormity.

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Chapter 13.

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