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Drunkard Macdonald"A common story, resting upon no adequate authority, is that a short-hand writer once undertook to make a verbatim report of a speech which [Canadian prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald] delivered at Kingston. When he had examined the manuscript he sent for the reporter, gravely intimated that he had read portions of it with pain and surprise, and with the mild austerity of a grieving father added, 'Young man, if you ever again undertake to report the speech of a public man be sure that you keep sober!'"
[On another occasion, Macdonald was scheduled to speak at a town on Lake Huron, "but he was so long in sleeping off the consequences that the vessel on which he was a passenger dared not put into the harbour."]
MacDonald, Sir John Alexander (1815-1891) Scottish-born Canadian statesman, first prime minister of Canada (1867-73, 1878-91)
[Sources: John Willison in Douglas Fetherling, Broadview Book of Canadian Anecdotes]More Sir MacDonald anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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