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Burton stood and had stood for twenty-five years the recognized, the reigning king of comedy in America.
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Watterson describes Burton as a long-standing figure in American comedy.
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Thus, restricted to the South, it came to represent in the Southern mind a “right” which the South was bound to defend.
His humor though perennial was subdued; his wit keen and spontaneous, never acrid or wounding.
Directly he came out and said: “I may be doing wrong, and don’t feel entirely sure of my ground, but I am going to let you gentlemen go.
I have put up my last dollar south of the Potomac.” Then I went to the King of the transcontinental railways.
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