told and the audience is prepared to make the comparison, point by point, as the

illustration is told. Henry W. Grady used this method in one of the anecdotes he

told while delivering his great extemporaneous address, "The New South."

 

Age does not endow all things with strength and virtue, nor are all new things

to be despised. The shoemaker who put over his door, "John Smith's shop, founded

1760," was more than matched by his young rival across the street who hung out

this sign: "Bill Jones. Established 1886. No old stock kept in this shop."

 

In two anecdotes, told also in "The New South," Mr. Grady illustrated another

way of enforcing the application: in both instances he split the idea he wished

to drive home, bringing in part before and part after the recital of the story.

The fact that the speaker misquoted the words of Genesis in which the Ark is

described did not seem to detract from the burlesque humor of the story.

 

I bespeak the utmost stretch of your courtesy tonight. I am not troubled about

those from whom I come. You remember the man whose wife sent him to a neighbor

with a pitcher of milk, who, tripping on the top step, fell, with such casual

interruptions as the landings afforded, into the basement, and, while picking

himself up, had the pleasure of hearing his wife call out:

 

"John, did you break the pitcher?

 

"No, I didn't," said John, "but I be dinged if I don't."