"The custom of giving a blessing before the lections was already in existence in the fourth century.

In the palace of Aix-la-Chapeile, it was by knocking, and not by the words Tu autem, that the Emperor Charlemagne gave the signal for the conclusion of the lections, while the lector recited himself, Tu autem, Domine miserere nobis.

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I contrived to lose the first part of his sentence, but what I heard began so: by the Frog-Pond, when there were frogs in it, and the folks used to come down from the tents on 'Lection and Independence days with their pails to get water to make egg-pop with.

You'd have your ledgers, and your children, and your churches and Sunday schools, and freed niggers, and 'lections, and what not, and never stop to think whether the lads that sailed your ships across the world had souls, or not,and be a good sort of man too.

Your innimies say you're not sincere, Nor care a straw for Irish here, Unless whin 'lection time is near, And Irish votes are wanted.

"In a month we can have the niggers so scared that they won't dare stick their heads out of doors on 'lection day.

"I ain' gwine ter have nothin' ter do wid de 'lection, suh!

"We have to go back to Africa to vote all the 'lections.

If they let some folks vote in the first lection, they would be putting in somebody got no business in the gover'ment.

They would say, 'So and so lost the lection,' and then somebody would go to Judgment.

I remember once they had a big barbecue in Helena just after the 'lection.

Recollects he had a glazed 'lection-bun, and sat eating it and looking down on to the Common.

Them 'lection buns are no go,said the young man John, so called.

That's the way to stop off a young one from eatin' up all the 'lection dinner.

Long time ago, Mr. Roy Nash an' Mr. Hugh Sutton wuz a settin' ovah de ballot box on 'lection day, when I voted 80 Democrats.

He was never away from home, except to attend to his business at market; and she had never seen him spelling over the sporting-papers, as her father had been wont to do, night after night, with a perplexed brow and an anxious face, making calculations upon the margin of the print every now and then with a stump of lead pencil, and chewing the end of it meditatively in the intervals of his lection.

On 'lection day I brung in 1500 Niggers to vote de Democrat ticket.

"'Afore de 'lection come in November (it mus' a-been in '75) de Niggers had been a-votin' an' doin' ever'thing de Chisolms say.

De white democratic folks won dat 'lection.

Ef we say 'n our pletform thet all men are brothers, We don't mean thet some folks ain't more so 'n some others; An' it's wal understood thet we make a selection, An' thet brotherhood kin' o' subsides arter 'lection.

Aour caounty went dry last 'lection, and tother day er went to the spensary ter git sum fire-water er thinkin we mought be sick er sunthin, ther wouldn't let me hev it 'thout Doc's 'scripshunwent to Doc, wouldn't give me 'scripshun 'thout snake-bite er sunthinwent ter only snake er knowed on fer a bite, und the dog-goned critter sed all his bites wuz spoke for three weeks ahed.

Don't yer 'member, on 'lection day, I smashed two ticket booths of t'other can'date, in the Sixth Ward, lickt as much as a dozen men who was workin' agen ye, an' din was put into the Tumes over nightbad luck to the Tumes, I say!

Git together there 'n' talk crops 'n' 'lections 'n' the like.

And don't you remember that time the 'lection run so clost they got up old bed-ridden Nate Haskins, whose brain had been softenin' for years, and his wife had to dress him and git him ready for the pole, he callin' on his wife, Nancy, to put on every identical garment and tell where it went, and when they got him to the pole he wouldn't vote because Nance wuzn't there to tell him which ticket to vote.