The Man Behind the Gun an Address (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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When, at a meeting recently of the executive committee of this society, I was invited to be one of the speakers at this annual assembly on the anniversary of Washington's birthday, I was im mediately informed by my steering committee of one that it was not expected that I should consume more than ten minutes in expanding my views; on the supposition, no doubt, that I would have either exhausted my subject or my audience in that length of time: which reminds me of an in eident that occurred in Alexandria in the days now long since gone by. During the early days of September 1878, I was a guest of friends there, and on a Sunday morning accompanied a young girl friend to the Presbyterian Church, the pastor of which was the venerable Dr. Bullock, and her father one of the elders. After the services, in which Dr. Bullock preached a sermon considerably over an hour in length, he accepted an invitation from the aforesaid elder, Mr. Stuart, to accompany us to Mr. Stuart's home to dinner. While con suming the viands on the well-spread table, the talk turned on the exhausting heat of the day, and Dr. Bullock said to me: I suppose, young man.

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