" Welt, Bridget, if I engage you, I shall want you to stay at home whenever i shiill wish to go out." " Well, ma'am, I have no objections," said Bridget, " providin* you do tho Bame when I wish to go out."
A story is told of Kev. Robert J. Breckinridge who was temporary chairman of the Baltimore Convention in 1884, and the l:ito Thoj. F. Marshall of Kentucky. Both wishing to establish a reputation in early life, measured lances with Henry Clay, and of course got the worst of it. A few years afterward the two met, the latter being on one of his customary sprees. The luwyer exclaimed to the divine : " Ah ? Bob, it wus an unlucky day for us when we tilted agains'. the great Harry ! It drove me to the bottle and you to the pulpit Bob ; but I've stuck a d d sight closer to my text than you havo to yours."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1077, 27 April 1867, Page 6
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