"THIS TOO SOLID FLESH."
"Big Billy Taft,^' President, of the United States, is noted as much for his enormous bulk as for his services to fcho country.. • He.Avejghs twentytAvo stone, and on<j day, when he Avas surrounded by a -group of pressmen, he proudly exhibited his leg. "What do you think, of that for a leg?" he asked. ■ "It would do credit to a billiard table," was the reply of one of his interrogators. . When he was Governor of the Philippines, and .Mr Root Avas War Secretary. Mr Taft telegraphed to tho latter. "Rode forty miles on horseback. Feeling fine.'' Mr Root's reply Avas: "Glad you are reeling line. Mow's ilio horse?'"
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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 280, 31 May 1909, Page 5
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112"THIS TOO SOLID FLESH." Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 280, 31 May 1909, Page 5
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