LONG-WINDED. 'The dinner came to an end, and the chairman called for silence. "Gentlemen," he began, "I will now call upon Mr. Long, our distinguished guest, to make his speech."' The guest rose and was greeted with a round of polite applause. When this died down he commenced. At the end of ten minutes he was still speaking, but when at the end of half an hour he had not finished! the patience of his listeners began to get exhausted. In the end the speaker wound up with: , "Speaking is nothing to me. As a boy I used frequently to talk in my sleep." / "And now," a dbwsy voice wa» heard to exclaim from the other end of the room, "you talk in ours."
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Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 16, 11 September 1930, Page 11
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