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Edinburgh policemen in turn had their grievances against Talker Flockhart. Frequently they had to carry him to the stationhouse. A diminutive man, he could not keep pace with them. In the station-house he would invariably transfix the officers with his strange eyes, and recite Scriptures to them. Often they threw him out of their presence; and that hurt those Scotsmen dreadfully. Manhandling the wight was like tearing a page from the Bible...
...thought it strange that he should admire the late Henry C. Frick, that he should be retiring, now, to write the life of his hero, among other biographical and historical writing that he has laid out for himself. Henry Frick, the doer, would inevitably appeal to George Harvey, the talker, gangling, circumloquacious George Harvey with his big Adam's apple, his quick loyalties and fierce antagonisms, his life of violent spurts in oblique directions. Both men had had adventurous and active early years, Henry Frick (born 1849) baking coke in Pennsylvania, learning business methods from his grandfather, flour merchant...
However, my wife is an able talker. She will be one of a flying squadron of speakers to take the stump for me during the last five weeks before election day. My good friend, Mayor Dever of Chicago, approves of Mrs. Brennan's campaign activity-and so do I. In fact, I am helping her write the speeches...
...chief requisites for an entertaining talker are an exuberant vanity, a wit modified by the ability to criticize a remark before it is made, and above all something to talk about. Joseph Pennell, famed etcher, has entertained a great many people-great authors whose books he has illustrated, pressmen who have interviewed him, artists who have asked him to dinner, ladies' clubs before which he has lectured on his own life and works. Thousands of sincere admirers have said to him: "Oh, Mr. Pennell, you do talk so splendidly you really ought to put it all down...
...young man who has most to do is a talker. He talks so much and so smoothly that he does not bother to work. The system suffices until he talks another man out of his fiancee and marries her himself. Then, in a heroic bit of utter implausibility in the last act, he talks himself into his rich uncle's favor. Apparently he is going to go through" life on the same principle. Not a bad idea, but is it practicable...