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Some Account of Eatanswill; of the State of Parties therein; and of the Election of a Member to serv

           Pickwick’snote-book,wecanjusttraceanentryofthefact,thattheplacesofhimselfandfollowerswerebookedbytheNorwichcoach;butthisentrywasafterwardslinedthrough,asifforthepurposeofconcealingeventhedirectioninwhichtheboroughissituated.Wewillnot,therefore,hazardaguessuponthesubject,butwillatonceproceedwiththishistory,contentwiththematerialswhichitscharactershaveprovidedforus.

           Itappears,then,thattheEatanswillpeople,likethepeopleofmanyothersmalltowns,consideredthemselvesoftheutmostandmostmightyimportance,andthateverymaninEatanswill,consciousoftheweightthatattachedtohisexample,felthimselfboundtounite,heartandsoul,withoneofthetwogreatpartiesthatdividedthetowntheBluesandtheBuffs.NowtheBlueslostnoopportunityofopposingtheBuffs,andtheBuffslostnoopportunityofopposingtheBlues;andtheconsequencewas,thatwhenevertheBuffsandBluesmettogetheratpublicmeeting,town-hall,fair,ormarket,disputesandhighwordsarosebetweenthem.WiththesedissensionsitisalmostsuperfluoustosaythateverythinginEatanswillwasmadeapartyquestion.IftheBuffsproposedtonewskylightthemarket-place,theBluesgotuppublicmeetings,anddenouncedtheproceeding;iftheBluesproposedtheerectionofanadditionalpumpintheHighStreet,theBuffsroseasonemanandstoodaghastattheenormity.

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