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Show i WEB8TER "A GREAT ANIMAL." Wonderful Orator Seemed Half Asleep When Trying a Case. "I heard hlra once In Fnncull hall, Doston. Every man In tho audience nnd the hnll was crowded gavo ono shout of applnuso at what Everett said. The subject I havo entirely forgotten, for-gotten, but this fact I remember," lays a writer In tho Critic. I Inquired Inquir-ed If ho had ever heard Webster pro-duco pro-duco such an effect on an audience. Ho said never; but ho had only heard Webster In court; It was in defense ot a celebrated criminal perhaps tho Phoenix hank coso In Boston. "Mr. Webster seemed In n semi-dream. 1 thought him hnlf asleep, .for ho had his eyes almost closed and wns In a heavy state, taking little notlco of what went on In court. William De-hon, De-hon, a brisk young man, sat near him and furnished him with law hooks and papers and acted as If ho wero there to keep WeliBter awuke. There were three Judges on tho bench probably Judgo Shaw and two others--ono on each side of nlm. They watched Web ster closely, for it would not do to neglect what he might say. He. on the contrary, appeared to tnko no account ac-count of other persons, ns if his mind wero anywhere but there. 1 fancied ho wis thinking what his next political politi-cal move should lie. Ho was a re-markalilo re-markalilo man to look at far, other than tho ordlnnry run of men 1 suppose sup-pose tho most remarkable American In his aspect that over was seen. They thought bo in England, whero they stopped to look after him In tho street. But ho was heavy a great anlrnnl, involved in-volved In his own dreams nnd paying Utllo attention to what went on around him." |