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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...are in VOL. II. H such an infarnal hurry, they spend the whole time in false starts. " No, there is no good oratory to parliament now, and the English brag so, I doubt if it ever was so good, as they say it was in old times. At any rate, it's all got down to "Bunkum" now. It's makin' a speech for newspapers and not for the House. It's to tell on voters and not on members. Then, what a row they make, don't they? Hear, hear, hear; divide, divide, divide; oh, oh, oh; haw, haw, haw. It tante much different from stump oratory in America arter all, or speakin' off a whiskey barrel, is it? It's a sort of divil me-kear-kind o' audience; independent critters, that look at a feller full in the face, as sarcy as the divil; as much as to say, ' Talk away, my old 'coon, you won't alter me, I can tell you, it's all Bunkum. " Lord, I shall never forget poor old Davy Crocket's last speech; there was no " bunkum" in that. He despised it; all good shots do, they aim right straight for the mark and hit it. There's no shoot in' round the ring, with them kinder men. Poor old feller, he was a great hunter; a great shot with the rifle, a great wit, and a great man. He didn't leave his span behind him, when he slipt off the handle, I know. " Well he stood for an election and lost it, just afore he left the States; so when it was over, he slings his powder horn on, over his shoulders, takes his " Betsey," which was his best rifle, onder his arm, and mounts on a barrel, to talk it into his constituents, and take leave of 'em. " ' Feller citizens,' sais he, ' we've had a fair stand-up fight for it, and I'm whipped, that are a fact; and thar is no denyin' of it. I've come now to take my leave of you. You may all go to H--1,...Book Details
Published
July 1, 2012
Publisher
RareBooksClub.com
Pages
44
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781236630247