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Show ONE OF WEBSTER'S BON MOTS. Containing a Meaning More or Lest Effectually Concealed. DJring middle life Daniel Wobstcr was fond of revisiting tho trout brooks he had fished as a boy, and was often accompanied by his "hired man," who wns a native of tho samo village and had been a companion and schoolmate On ono of theso excursions tho statesman related tho story of a very largo trout ho had captured when a boy from tho brook In which they wore then fishing. Tho "hired man" responded with a story of a trout ho had caught in that samo brook, and which, of course, was many ounces heavier than that of tho "great expounder." ex-pounder." Sir. Webster oyod his companion in sllcnco for a moment, and thon ox-clulmcd, ox-clulmcd, with emphasis: "Jerry, you are an nm-phlb-Ioiis animal; you Ho In tho wntor and you llo out of it." |