AN ELECTION STORY.
"I was," said a politician "one# opening a speech, and was beginning to warm with my subject, when a remarkably clear and deliberate voice spoke out behind me, saying, ‘lie wouldn't talk quite so hifaJuti-i if he knew his trousers was bust clean out behind,’ From that moment I couldn't get on. The people in front began to laugh ; and there was a loud roar in my ear, and I dared not reverse my position for fear of having new beholders of my condition. I made, or rather invented an excuse for delay, and sat down.
"The malicious scoundrel !" continued the orator ; "it was only, a moan trick after all. There was nothing under heaven the matter with my unmentionables."
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 21, 2 January 1907, Page 5
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123AN ELECTION STORY. Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 21, 2 January 1907, Page 5
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