Show LUCIUS I On Election Polls Lucius elder statesman and Political of 01 county wore store a strained d expression as dS ashe ashe he o opened ened the frosted glass and chicken wire door of Mayor Ryerson Buckets Bucket's office Mornin and a d variety of oJ congratulations ions lations Rye st said d he Mighty glad to o see you o win the same sante old hole bole in on that Ihal chair seal seat That upstart Clem Gropper Cropper that the opposition put pili up as dS asa asa dSa a candidate agin you run a d poor race didn't he be hel helY Y You mean snapped Rye Bucket the upstart that thai you were running around the county winding your horn hom would fi win wn the election hands down You and your our scientific barber sarber poll Ha Hal lIdl The mayor snorted stridently Now Nou Rye Re said Mister with like some dignity you ou shouldn't talk lalk that I 1 voted oled for lor you Or 1 I would've If 11 I 1 hadn't sneezed In n the voting booth and blew out th the candle so I 1 couldn't see where I 1 was making an X Turned out that I didn't get an X in any one of those danged circles cirdes And what about your yuk uk barber Poll oll the Ibe mayor major w Well ell now non that was what I 1 thought was a genuine scientific poll from Irom which I thought sure I could predict the outcome of oJ the election I 1 was so blamed objective that I didn't ask nobody nobody nobody no no- body Then how in th the name o 0 Harry could you get gel any opinions Mister combed fris whiskers reflectively rely why I called it a d barber poll oll he be said Day after day dayI I 1 I set sel In Ebenezer barber shop and watched people get gel haircuts I fig fig- figured figured I I 1 bad a system When a man come in and said to 10 Eb Clippers all around Eb I 1 him for a And anybody who come In and asked to have the si sideburns left on well on-well well what could he hebe hebe hebe be but bul a Republican 1 I thought they'd vote fote to their haircuts Beauty of the system was that it di didn't involve no unknown quantities like the tb quick of oJ a aman's amans mans malls opinion or the deep currents that flow floU beneath a d mans man's conscious think- think in Yeah a d beautiful system Mister sighed the mayor in a d more kindl kindly tone Im kinda sorry It il didn't work flork out right Thanks Rye Re murmured the elder eiller statesman and his bis whiskers twitched It 11 was beautiful A beautiful system |