Show HOW HE GOT DAMN HABIT boyhood spent in plowing in tangle of roots enough to make anyone learn to swear says cannon mount vernon ill how he ac quiren the damn habit was divulged by joseph G cannon former speaker of the national house of 0 represents presenta re tives lives in his first chautauqua appear ance this is what he said 1 I will tell you first how I 1 got ahr habit he be explained 1 I grew up over de I 1 R sap I 1 40 X an X KW 1 k k 5 1 I 1 joseph Q G cannon here in the wabash bottoms on the indiana side now I 1 leave it to you if a boy brought up in a leanto lean to passing his young days clearing and log burning plowing with a bull tongue plow in a tangle 0 of roots loots and getting his shins barked every time a root flew back and cracked him would have been worth a damn it if he said damn when he got a crack on the shins 7 |