Seddon’s Banquet Speech.
Before one quotes from an anecdote at a public gathering it is well to be sure that oue remembers the point, and that it is comme il taut. At one of the recent celebrations in Sydney “King Dick" caused considerable amusement by a lapse of memory in th:.-, way. He was alluding to the splendid* treatment of the guests of the Federal Government, and in his peroration remarked. “We have been treated royally, gentlemen, royally: in fact. I can only find one phrase and quote the old Scotch yarn—you all remember it?—and say. ‘this, indeed, is the height of hospitality.’ ” From the shout of laughter which went up it was obvious that the banqueters did remeinlter the yarn, though Dick had so evidently forgotten it. + + +
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue IV, 26 January 1901, Page 156
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128Seddon’s Banquet Speech. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue IV, 26 January 1901, Page 156
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