Roosevelt Standard | 1914-11-30 | Page 2 | How He Got "Damn" Habit

HOW HE GOT DAMN boyhood spent in plowing in tangle of roots enough to make anyone learn to swear says cannon mount vernon III how he acquired the damn habit babit was divulged by joseph G cannou cannon former speaker of 0 the national house of represents presenta re tives in his first chautauqua appear ance this Is what he said 1 I nill a tell you first how bow I 1 got the th habit be explained 1 I grew up ovel n 0 wa rr e a joseph G cannon hero here in the wabash bottoms on the indiana side now I 1 leave it to you it if a boy brought up in a leanto lean to passing his young days clearing and log burning plowing with a bull tongue plow in a tangle of roots and getting his bis shins barked time every a root flew back and cracked him would have been w worth a damn it he said damn when h e n he got a crack on the shins T