Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1896 — Had His Wisn. [ARTICLE]

Had His Wisn.

The late Sir Henry Parkes, the Australian statesman, had a great opinion of his poetic gifts, and on one occasion, when addressing a Sydney meeting, he said: “I would ratner be known as a third-rate poet than as a first-rate politician.” Here he paused for breath and admiration, when “the man in the crowd,” seeing his opportunity, exclaimed in strident accents: “Well, and aren't you?”