Show famous writers and orators of boston were speaking 0 of their lecture experiences when the subject of pay was brought tip p each was certain lie ho had bad received the smil smallest lest sum eftim but dr holmes made a 1 climax by saying a SI listen gentlemen I 1 I 1 had h ad engaged eng iffet to give a lecture for 5 after it vas ft as over a 1 0 grave rave lookin looking d deacon ancon came to me inc and said mr irr holmes we to give you 5 but your talk juat what we vie expected expelled it would be and I 1 guess lew fifty will den this is hardly equal to the experience of corwin cornin the famous ohio orator on oil one occasion lie visited vis cited 1 a I hamlet hart ilet and garo e aye his bis services ina in a political celt A large a whig audience was vociferous in applause and in ili a c ceries of long drawn ipso lations commending the party anil particularly the si speaker prolonged the meeting until far into the naghi keeping the eloquent corwin until long on his re regular ular time for retiring in C finally lie he escaped from the d ismal dismal drone of whereas and resolved and sought his loom in lite hotel lie ile had been asleep about nil an hour u hen lie was aroused by a 1 I loud knocking at his ellam lier door upon opening copenh 0 the door the lately groused sleeper discovered one of tile the headlights of the late meeting holding in ili his hand a bundle of resolutions anti and at his feet lay a huge watermelon this indi individual vi bidual havin having received recognition proceeded to inflict lipon mr corwin the reading of it a len lengthy thy series of resolutions of thinks hanks after lie he rolled the watermelon into the room announcing it is as the finest in ill the country corwin appreciating the awkward courtesy couil esy of the resolutions and tile the compliment of the materni elon thanked the hie deleNn delegate te most elo fluently the latter individual planted himself iti it the door when mr corwin bonvin finally asked 14 alya my mood good man mail is there anything 0 else that I 1 can do for you I 1 I 1 yes sir slowly responded tho the individual addressed pay me 50 cents for that watermelon inter ocean |