'HIGH FALUTIN'.
.- •£. ■'MINISTERIAL METAPHOR-" SLIGHTLY MIXED. Surrounded by all the pomp and cil* cumstance of glorious war-to scarlet mess jackets of the Garrisou ofEcers-the Hon. D. Buddo, at the Hotel Windsor last evening, waxed eloquent upon tho nobility of tie .profession 0/ arms, and gave vbico to some fine sentiments on the subject of nabonal patriot, ism, military ardour, and so forth. . A3 he spoke, his imagination craickened, and ho saw, in bjsr mind's oyc, the international sitnation spread before hrm; heard, with the statesman s ear, tho faint discords which: jarred upon tho European Concert. Bnt what were theso faint discords to British bull-dogs? All this in effect, ho . descanted upon _at length, and'finally rounded off a.stirring peroration with these words :—, "Those ripples on the' political surface will never 'dull the trumpet sound of the national call to arms!"
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 986, 29 November 1910, Page 4
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