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throwing rice and everything at them. Next morning the 

 bride and groom went back to breakfast and as they re- 

 turned to their stateroom people looked at them and 

 smiled, and when they got back he called the porter and 

 said to him, 'Torter, I thought I told you not to tell any- 

 body in this train that we were newly married folks." 

 "Su'h, Boss, I nebber did tell nothin' like that. 'S a matter 

 ob fact they said, wasn't you folks married? And I said, 

 No, sah, No, sah, you wasn't." (Laughter.) '*No, sah, 

 Boss, I nebber done tell nothin' like that. I sez, 'they are 

 just chums'." (Laughter and applause.) 



I would be inclined to tell some stories as Mr. O'Hair 

 did, but you noticed when he was telling them the chair 

 broke down, and when that balloon bust right in my face 

 it reminded me of a colored fellow down south. This 

 darkey had some money in a bank and he went to get it. 

 Just as he went in to get it the door was shut in his face. 

 Finally someone inside came to him and said, **Why are 

 you pounding on that door?" **I want some money." 

 ''You can't get no money out of this bank; this bank is 

 busted." "What you mean busted?" "Didn't you ever 

 hear of busted before?" And the darkey said, "Um-m-m 

 huh, I done hear about busted, but this am the first time 

 I ever had a bank busted right in my face." (Laughter 

 and applause.) 



I am a Rotarian myself. You have got to be careful 

 when you are a Rotarian. I congratulate Charley Taylor 

 that he is still a Rotarian. I am inclined to think if he 

 keeps on much longer he is not going to be a Rotarian. 

 (Laughter.) 



You know always if I was going to talk I would have 

 to say something about the dairy industry, but I have been 

 looking around here and I don't see many dairymen and 

 farmers, only O'Hair and myself. 



I do think all of us ought to know something about 

 the dairy industry because there are tim.es when embar- 

 rassment is liable to take place. A lawyer over in our 

 town was told by his doctor, "You don't only need live in 

 the country, but you have got to work. Just living won't 



