Making Speeches.— l. hope the day will soon " arrive when we shall have the speeches done Jb'£l : a skilled waiter at the side-table, as we. now.' have- ■ the carving. Don't you find that you splash the gravy, that you mangle the meat, that. y6u . can't! •' ■ nick the joint in helping the company to. a dinner £/,'. . speech ? I, for my part, own that lamin a atate 4.. ■ of tremor and absence of mind before, .the; opera-." ■' tion ; in a condition of imbecility during the busies. L" ness; and that lam sure of a headache and indict '•*■" gesfeieathe next morning. What then? Have -1../ not seen one of the brayqst men in. the world, at . •. a city dinner last year, in a state of ecmalpanic,?-^ - : :; Thaclferas* .. " . ,\ - ■ :.' ■.-..': £-:±-- !
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Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1781, 21 October 1862, Page 3
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Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1781, 21 October 1862, Page 3
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