That government man, that spoke in their favour, warn't his speech rich?
"Lord love you! I aint no speaker, I never made but one speech since I was raised, and that was afore a Slickville legislatur, and then I broke down.

I know'd who I was a talkin' afore; they was men that had cut their eye-teeth, and that you could'nt pull the wool over their eyes, nohow you could fix it, and I was young then.

Now I'm growed up, I guess, and I've got my narves in the right place, and as taught as a drum; and I _could_ speak if I was in the House o' Commons, that's a fact.

If a man was to try there, that was worth any thin', he'd find he was a flute without knowin' it.

They don't onderstand nothin' but Latin and Greek, and I'd buoy out them sand banks, keep the lead agoin', stick to the channel, and never take ground, I know.