Box Elder News Journal | 1906-09-06 | Page 4 | One of Webster's Bon Mots

I 1 ONE OF WEBSTERS SON EON Cont containing eining a meaning more or less effectually concealed during middle life dan daniel lel webster was fond of revisiting the trout brooks he had fished as a n boy and was often accompanied by his hired man who was a native of the same village and had bad been a corn companion and schoolmate on one of these excursions the statesman related the story 0 ot f a very large trout he be had captured when a boy from aroi a the brook la in which they were then fl fishing the hired man responded with a sto story ry of a trout he had caught in that same brook and which of course was many ounces heavier than that of 0 the great expounder mr webster absler eyed his companion in silence far a moment and then ex claimed with emphasis jerry you are arc an am a n phah ious fous animal you lie in the water and you lie out of it