When Mr Webster visited England, after he had attained fame enough to precede him, an English gentleman took him one day to see Lord Brougham. That eminent Briton received our Daniel with such coolness that he was glad to get away and back to his rooms. The friend who had taken him at once returned to Lord Brougham in haste and anger. “My lord, how could you behave with such unseemly nidouess and discourtesy to so great a lawyer and statesman ?” “ Why, what on earth have I done, and Whom have I bech rude to ?” “To Daniel Webster, of the Senate of the United States.” “Great Jupiter, what a blunder ! I thought it was that fellow Webster Who made a dictionary and nearly ruined the English language.” Then the great Chancellor quickly hunted up the .American Senator, and, having tastes in common besides law and politics, they made a royal night of it.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 763, 1 December 1876, Page 3
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