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She told him he would have to slip his pants off and she would 

 sew it up. He did and she opened a door when she heard some 

 ladies coining and told him to get into the closet quickly. The 

 ladies came in and the man commenced to knock on the door for 

 her to let him in. She said there were ladies in there, and he said : 

 "I don't care who is in there, I am in the ballroom. 



This is the second time I have had the pleasure of meeting 

 with the Illinois Dairymen's Association, and I was asked tonight 

 to talk a little about the Illinois farmer boy. The highest honor 

 to be conferred on me is to be asked to talk upon that subject for 

 a little while. I am satisfied he is not treated exactly right, 

 neither is his mother. The next time I have the privilege of 

 attending a dairy association in the State of Illinois, I should 

 like to have represented that class of individuals upon whom we 

 must depend for the continuance of this business. I have in my 

 desk at my office 1,000 letters from boys. The most of them come 

 from boys who live in the State of Illinois, and it would surprise 

 you to read those letters and to see the exercise of judgment 

 by those boys carrying on this world's business. You remember 

 what Josh Billings said, "The more I see of men the better I like 

 dogs." The more I see of men the better I like boys. I could 

 tell you a story I listened to. It was told by Gudchell of Topeka, 

 who has charge of the newsboys of that city. By his aid in that 

 city 1,600 boys have joined that organization and he talked to me 

 for an hour and told of the most wonderful things accomplished 

 by the organization and direction of the boys of that city, and 

 the majority of them were selling papers. I want to say to you, 

 ladies and gentlemen, that they have recently completed in that 

 historical city a building, put up by the newsboys that belonged 

 to this organization, and it belongs to them. I don't believe that 

 we fully appreciate the importance of boys. I have just come 

 from a State Dairy Association where a paper was read by Mr. 

 Pile of Missouri, and he said in that paper that the style of their 

 firm was Pile & Son, and the son was eight years old. I would 

 ask you to take these boys into your counsel and the deliberations 

 of these meetings, and inculcate into their minds, which are so 

 receptive, the basic principles of the best business in which the 



