NO ORATOR.
" Ican't very well express-which it -whioh it—what there—l do uot-you aro very—l am not, sir, insensible—the fact is," Baid the diffident man, suddenly called to his feot for a speech at a public dinner, " I cau't make a speech, and I can't say anything you would understand or would wish to hear; hut if it pleases you to see'me blush and perspire, I will stand here on one leg and perspire for the next ten minutes." They let him off, " ■• c\ \ '■
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1026, 18 March 1882, Page 2
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83NO ORATOR. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1026, 18 March 1882, Page 2
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