Show I 1 III 11 I 1 0 ra SS EYED MAN MADE TROUBLE how visional a lecturer 1 I have faced A thousand audiences said a well known le lecturer e ahn other day and I 1 have never been able to shake off my nervousness of the first 10 minutes scores and scores of times I 1 have wanted to run away as the moment approached for me to 0 o step out and be introduced and dozens en and dozens of times I 1 have bad had close escapes from breaking down after making a fair beginning the thereat trifle will sometimes put a lee lec clean out the flattest failure I 1 ever made was in a town in ohio I 1 had been speaking for 10 minutes when a cross eyed man came in and took a front fron seat he at once crossed his legs folded bis his arms and looked me full in the face I 1 tried not to see him but Is im spite 0 0 myself I 1 found my gance wandering in his direction and tind hu soon began to irritate me I 1 got to wondering wandering it if bla his childr n were also rrose crosz eyed which eye he saw paw the best with why he have them straightened and I 1 felt myself getting tangled up I 1 fought against the influence and went on all right tor for 10 minutes and then I 1 noticed that the cross eyed man had a pimple on his nose I 1 thought I 1 saw him trying to look at it and I 1 just stopped bead still in my lecture to watch him himo fur two minutes the audience was as allent aa so many dead people but then they caught on and began to laugh and fer for f er another two minutes the haj hau was in an uproar 1 I meant to call attention to th abana ns misfortune of course but his feel lugs were not at nil all hurt it appeared that he had bought a new necktie neck tie at a bargain that da and aa as I 1 stood there like a stupid he be rose up and bowed to me and said sir air it you want one too I 1 can tell you where they are sold tor for 17 cents apiece and they are the biggest bargains in ohio then we bad a hearty laugh all around and I 1 found my lost wits and went ahead again and aud I 1 do believe that was the most enthusiastic audience of at the year |