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Show TALKED TO DEATH. ' The toastmaster was in despair. Looking ilow the table he saw a friend, an Irishman, noted for his wit, and he thought that he might help. Ill called on him. With due solemnity the Irishman responded: "I cannot say what 1 want to nay," he bean with "for we are all limited to IWe minutes. Sa 1 will tell you of an Irishman who came to thin country. He wrote home telling of things here, and recounted that no longer were men put t death in this country jy being hanged. 'The way they kill' 'em here,' he wrote, 'Is by elocution.'"- Raleigh News and Observer. |