DISTASTEFUL TAFFY.
Tlio late Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, was dining at his hotel in "Washington when an effusive stranger sat flown near him. The stranger introduced himself to Senator Hoar, and immediately launched into a eulogy of the Senitor in the most slowing terms. He taffied the Senator for ten minutes, much to that statesman's apparent discomfort. Finally he said: " Why. only the other day. Senator a man with whom I was travelling told me yon are the greatest- patriot and the greatest orator and the greateststatesman Xew England ever .«ent. to the Senate! was a. well-informed man I met him only the other day when he was on his way—on his warto — odd. T can't remember-—on his way to " "A lunatic asylum!" snapped Hoar.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10752, 25 April 1913, Page 2
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