That was at the Revere House in Boston, where he was expected to speak after dinner.

"I sat next to him," said Ticknor; "suddenly he put his hand on my shoulder and whispered, 'Come out and run around the common.'" This they did and the speech was a success.

There is a wooden statue of Daniel Webster that has stood for forty years in Hingham, Massachusetts.

It is larger than life and called a good portrait.

It was made more than sixty years ago as a figurehead for the ship _Daniel Webster_ but never put on.