A stump speech.
[Scotland] : Poet's Box,
[1880-1900?]
In two columns.
Two pieces.
'This popular stump speech can always be had at the Poet's Box'.
'This popular reading can always be had at the Poet's Box'.
Dated from examination of text and style.
A stump speech - first lines read: 'Friends and fellow citizens, - Unaccustomed as I um to public speaking, allow me to say that when a man stands before a number of his fellow men to speak, he assumes a liberty.
Cure for a cripple - first lines read: It happened on a Sunday evening, about thirty years ago, that two sheep-stealers had meditated an attempt on the flock of a wealthy farmer in the parish of A-- in the west neuk of Fife.
Ballads, English