THOUGHT HE MUST BE A LAWYER.
C'astelar. the most voluble of talkers, . was one of a party oi twenty people who sat down at table one evening, and until the end of dinner he talked the whaletime. No one had been able to get- in a word edgeways, This greatly disgusted' M, Delpi'ctyhe French cabinet minis-' ter, who wiis' fond of-hearing thffsSgmr of his own voice. At length there came a pause in Hip conversation. Cnstelar was in the act ot rinsing his mouth, Delpeeh seized theonly opportunity thai lie hiiil throughout I lie dinner of placing bis little remark. (Jastelar, with his nose si ill in tho finger-bowl, stared al him with ÜBilisguised astonishment, Just before they rose from the table, he turned lo a friend and asked : '• That. M. Delpcfh—is he a lawyer ?" " No" was the reply; " why do'you ask ?" cause he is such a terrible eljatterkx " said Castelar,
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North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 9779, 12 January 1901, Page 1 (Supplement)
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