He never spoke when sober, he spoke continuously when he wasn't.

And certainly they were the drunkest speeches that a man ever uttered.

They were full of good things, but so incredibly mixed up and wandering that it made one's head swim to follow him.

They were not intended to be funny, but they were,--funny for the very gravity which the speaker put into his flowing miracles of incongruity.

In the course of five years I came to know the styles of the five orators as well as I knew the style of any speaker in my own club at home.
These reports came every month.