Painfully Introduced

A well-knoj,vn lecturer, who had been invited to serve as a substitute, felt some nervousness, knowing he was to fill the place of a more famous man. rhis feeüng was not diminished when ne heard himself thus announced by a long-limbe.d, keen-eyed western farmer: "This 'ere is our substitute. I don't inowwhat he can do. Time was short, in' w'e had to take what we could git!"