MISTRESS OF THE SITUATION.
An amusing incident occurred at a meeting at Geelong recently. During a political meeting the candidate wa* speaking on free trade and protection, and drawing a comparison between America and England, when a male member of tbe audience, with a pronounced Hibernian accent, rose and exclaimed, "It's tho greatest nation in the wurrld." Whether be referred to America or Englai.l, was not clear. Tlie candidate asked tbe interjector to keep his question till the end of the meeting. Pointing his finger at the platform, and with a glare of defiance in his eye, the obstructionist emphatically declared, " No, sir, I won't," and looked e» if be meant it. At that moment a little woman rose in the audience, walked quietly over to him and whispered in his cor. She then grasped him firmly by the collar of the coat, and with a determined air, which was only matched by her husband* remarkable change of front in his now subdued demeanour, led him triumphantly out of tbe hail, amid tbe encouraging applause of the
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11752, 28 November 1903, Page 7
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