MAKING A GREAT SPEECH

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 20, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 24.

MAKING A GREAT SPEECH.

A LAWYER whose eloquence was of the spread-eagle sort, was addressing the jury at great length, and his legal opponent, growing weary, went outside to rest.

“Mr. B—— is making a great speech,” said a countryman to the bored counsel.

“O, yes; Mr. B—— always makes a great speech. If you or I had occasion to announce that two and two are four, we'd be just fools enough to blurt it out. Not so Mr. B——. He would say, ‘If by that particular arithmetical rule known as addition we desire to arrive at the sum of two integers, we would find—I say it boldly, sir, and without the fear of successful contradiction—we, I repeat, should find by the particular arithmetical formula before mentioned—and, sir, I hold myself perfectly responsible for the assertion I am about to make—that the sum of the two given integers added to the other two integers would be four.’”—London Tit-Bits.