They even know it in Podunk, wherever that may be.
"Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens"
Albert Bigelow Paine Last Updated: February 20, 2009
How, besides ourselves, and some nice, respectable-looking old gentlemen Brannan had brought over from Podunk with him, paying their fares both ways, there were present only three men,-all adventurers whose projects had failed,- besides the representatives of the press.
"The-Brick-Moon-and-Other-Stories"
Hale, Edward Everett
So he made up an excellent collection of books,-De Lolme on the British Constitution; Montesquieu on Laws; Story, Kent, John Adams, and all the authorities here; with ten copies of his own address delivered before the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Society of Podunk, on the "Abnormal Truths of Social Order."
"The-Brick-Moon-and-Other-Stories"
Hale, Edward Everett