. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . horses, dragged the carriage containing the once un-known boy, but now world-famous orator, to the site of theGough Coffee Tavern, in the centre of the village, where thestone was laid, and where a characteristic address was given,to a throng which not even the pouring rain could two scenes, framing in the busy intervening years, telltheir own story of battle fought and victory won. life is more eloquent than his oratory. His prin-ciples, and the fidelity with which he maintained them,have earned him the respect
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . horses, dragged the carriage containing the once un-known boy, but now world-famous orator, to the site of theGough Coffee Tavern, in the centre of the village, where thestone was laid, and where a characteristic address was given,to a throng which not even the pouring rain could two scenes, framing in the busy intervening years, telltheir own story of battle fought and victory won. life is more eloquent than his oratory. His prin-ciples, and the fidelity with which he maintained them,have earned him the respect, as his dramatic eloquencewon for him the admiration, of two nations; while his sym-pathy and helpfulness have won for him that which is betterthan cither, — the love and blessings of unnumbered myriadswhom his words have inspired with a lofty purpose, a nobleambition, and a divine hope, and perhaps rescued frompoverty, degradation, and hopeless wretchedness, to a life ofhonored manhood here, and a hope of glorious immortalityhereafter. ^^t+JL^/7^Xr,. CHAPTER I. HABIT-ITS POWER, USE, AND ABUSE - HOW TO SUBDUEA TYRANT AND SECURE A FRIEND. What I Aim to Give-The Lessons of Experience - A Peculiar Clock-<< Whft on Earth will that Fellow do Next ?» - « Oh, I Bite my Nails » -Ridiculous Habits-Scene at a Railway Ticket-Office - Memory - Recog-nizing a Deserter After Thirty Years - Slaves of Fashion-Descriptionof the Suit I Wore at Twenty-One-The « Style Forty Attire-A Remarkable Inventory-Avarice- Only a LittleMore»-TheVice of Lying-The Habit of Swearing-1 he Boy WhoSwore by Old Dan Tucker-Im Sot, Yes, Im Sot-DamelWebsters Testimony-Two Words Spoken in Season-Ruin and Re-morse_«By and By —A Persistent Lover —A Narrow Escape- Come Down Wid Ye, Thady -The Warfare of Life. HE public do not expect fromme a literary entertainment,an intellectual feast, or alogical argument. I comebefore you, not to tell youwhat I have heard or read,but to tell that
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