MAJOR McCann’s welcome. 
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boy replied that he was a “ setter ” and he was setting the rab¬ 
bit, and showed the Englishman the rabbit as he scampered 
away. A short distance further on the boy espied a partridge. 
He immediately touched the mule on the flank, and down he 
sat. The Englishman was overjoyed, bantered the boy for a 
horse trade, and the boy finally got rid of his mule for the 
Englishman’s horse and a hundred dollars to boot. They changed 
mountings, until a short distance further along they crossed a 
stream. The Englishman put his spurs into the flanks of the 
mule and urged him forward, when the mule immediately sat 
down. Says the Englishman : “ What is the matter with him 
now? ” “ Oh,” says the boy, ‘‘ he sets just as well for suckers as 
he does for rabbits and birds.” {Lo2/d Applause.) In a word, 
that mule “ went all the gaits.” And the only reason my fellow 
citizens seem to have in trotting me out to make addresses of 
welcome grows out of the fact that I talk to the boys, smile on 
the girls, and take another kind of smile with the boys. In fact, 
my tank capacity has been equal to any show which comes onr 
way. 
Aside now, gentlemen, from levity, I again welcome yon to 
our city, and desire to say to yon that yon are monarchs of all 
you survey, and there is none your right to dispute. If there is 
anything yon want which yon do not see, let me know and you 
shall have it. I am a brother-in-law in the Methodist Church— 
Dr. Haggard’s church—and, therefore, can do no wrong. God 
bless every one of you. It is just such gatherings as we have 
to-day which adds to the glow of that spirit of nationality so 
essential to the nation’s prosperity. And while you attend to 
the business you have in hand, I will take the girls on a trolley 
ride, and return them all to you in perfect safety. I was born 
in this Southland, where the first lessons we were taught by onr 
mothers was to take care of the girls, let them have a good 
time, and show them the elephant, tushes and all. And I know 
that I shall be amply repaid for my trouble by the sweet music 
which will flow out from this row of chimes von have broimht 
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with yon. (Applaiisel) We will now move out, girls, and 
