The Last Speech and Banter in a Banquet Tale
A banquet reporter notes the crowd could not recall who delivered a list speech. Various anecdotes follow including a Boston merchant puzzled by a four men nine days wall riddle and a horse that refuses the mill-dam bridge.
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