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Show Revised Version. Senator Bankhead, discusing an eloquent elo-quent speech that had been rather poorly reported, said: "The report spoiled the speech. It was like old Hiram Earwig's account of Daniel Webster's last word. Webster, Web-ster, you know, as he lay dying, uttered ut-tered the profound and significant sentence, "I still live.' Well, Hirajn, Earwig of Skeeter Beach said to a visitor from the city: " 'Yawp, life's onsartin. Wot wuz it that thar New Englander said Webster, Web-ster, I think? Yawp, it wuz General Dan Webster. He got off a good thing Just afore he died. He riz up in bed an' says, says he: " 'I ain't dead yit!' " Baltimore Sun. |