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Show COULDN'T FOOL HIM i A pompous orator of the old school 1- you know the kind one of those 11 H boys who vocally wave the flag of free- I dum until some of the siars are shak- h I , en loose got up to speak in a little Jul town back in Ohio. Part of his dis- p- course was devoted to praise of Daniel 1 a jH Webster, that other great orator. l. The rural Bill Bryan frequently l. skidded from the roadway of fact On i-one i-one occasion, he said: "Daniel Web- i- WM ster s wonderful command of the Eng- ;d lish language, his unfailing grasp of c d Words, came from his tremendous jJ knowledge of the dictionary, of which d m he was the author." IH A well-meaninc friend whispered to the speaker. "Say, Bill, Daniel Web- fie mmm ster didn't write the dictionary; it was i-Noah!" i-Noah!" Bill surveyed the other with scorn, e tm and announced authoritatively and a mm loudly: 'Noah nothing! Noah built d the ark!" e m |