But still the gad waves, and the voice grows more distinct and sharper still, 'Back, sir! Back, I say! Further back!' And back he goes to the position of December, 1847, at which the gad is still and the voice soothingly says, 'So! Stand still at that!'" Again, after extended comment on the extra charges of General Cass upon the Treasury for military services, he continued in a still more sarcastic vein: "But I have introduced General Cass's accounts here chiefly to show the wonderful physical capacities of the man.

They show that he not only did the labor of several men _at the same time_, but that he often did it _at several places_ many hundred miles apart _at the same time_.

And at eating, too, his capacities are shown to be quite as wonderful.

From October, 1821, to May, 1822, he ate ten rations a day in Michigan, ten rations a day here in Washington, and near five dollars' worth a day besides, partly on the road between the two places.
And then there is an important discovery in his example--the art of being paid for what one eats, instead of having to pay for it.
Hereafter if any nice young man shall owe a bill which he cannot pay in any other way he can just board it out.

Mr.Speaker, we have all heard of the animal standing in doubt between two stacks of hay and starving to death.