In the oid days politicians mse'ta pull the wool over people's eyes and some of em got away with it for years, but to-day the public is gettin' smart and can detect insincerity.
The other night a politician got up in a church and made a speech on temperance. He got along just fine until he warmed up in his speech denouncing' beer he forgot himself and tried to blow the foam off a glass of water.
"BY Bob Burns.
Pain in the Chest Dr. A. Melville Clark told the following story when he lectured to his students on the principles of rhetoric and criticism.
A certain individual was addressing an audience, and in the course of a somewhat rhetorical speech he remarked:—O that I had been given windows in my breast that you might have glimpsed the purity of my motives.
A voice from the back of the hall spoke upi—"Ah wish ye did hae a pain" in yer chest, mister"
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