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Show I j Exporting Rapid Talk. J ".Speaking of rapid talkers makes van Ihiiik of the time I was gent to report a lecture by Henry Ward . Pfcher," said i tiio mayor's privao aecretary, Tom O'Neill, at the Progs club the other day. 1 "I was something of a stenographer and ' had always been able to keep paco with every man I had been asuiguod to take. So, with no misgivings. I sharpened my pencil and took ray seat at the reporters' table and waited for tbo distinguished (limine to begin. The subject was 'Evolution,' 'Evo-lution,' which, in those days, I knew absolutely ab-solutely nothing about. Well, he started in, and for a minute everything went all right. The second minute he took a spurt, and I found myself pushing my pencil at a high rate of speed. Tiie third minute ho put on more steam and I had to writo to fast my pencil got hot and came near setting tho paper afire. The fourth minute he spurted again and I was lost. He kept on spurting until at last ho struck his gait. "Heavens! bow he talked. No manuscript. manu-script. No notes. He just stood up there by his desk with one hand on it, the other by his side. His mouth was open, and without changing tho expression of his face or moving a muscle the words came rolling out one after another like drops of lead from the summit of a shot tower." Chicago Journal. |