1 14 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



I feel that you will not be at all disappointed. You know 

 the story of the man who said there was a compensation for 

 everything. He had noticed particularly wherever he saw 

 a man with a short leg, he was pretty sure to have another 

 one that was longer. (Laughter.) So here is S. L. Lupton 

 of Winchester, Virginia, who will give you a longer speech 

 than Collingwood, and you will know whether it is better 

 when he gets through. (Applause.) 



Hon. S. L. Lupton : j\Ir. Toastmaster. We'uns from 

 Virginia are mighty glad to see you'uns from Connecticut, 

 and I am particularly glad to see your near politician, the 

 mayor of Hartford. I am something of a politician myself, 

 and I feel like saying: ''Shake, partner." I had hoped to 

 meet your governor to-night at this banquet, because you 

 know he has been in the public eye of late, and I have been 

 quite interested in reading some of his pronouncements. 



I know you will all unite with me in expressmg youi 

 gratification at the fine appearance of our venerable toastmas- 

 ter. (Laughter.) He has told you himself that he is an old 

 man, but like the old Adam in Shakespeare's "As You Like 

 It," 



In his youth he never did apply 



Hot and rebellious liquors to his blood, 



Nor, with unbashful forehead, woo 



The means of weakness and debility. 



Therefore his old age is like a 



Lusty winter, frosty but kindly. 



(Laughter and applause.) 



Members of the Pomological Society of Connecticut, I 

 had the pleasure of a visit to you about five years ago. Re- 

 calling that meeting and this, and making some comparisons 

 mentally and otherwise, both in the exhibit of fruit you have 

 pleaced before the people to-day, and here to-night at this 

 banquet, and the speeches to which I have listened, I am 

 reminded very much of a remark that a Kansas farmer 

 made to his wife on one occasion when they had been in 

 one of those terrific Kansas cyclones, and they were sailing 

 through the air at the rate of about 80 miles an hour on a 



