<h3>NUMBERING THE HAIRS OF HIS--TAIL!</h3>
<p>A Congressional committee selected to examine and report upon a new
cannon, produced so voluminous a tome that Lincoln, reviewing it,
dropped it in disgust and commented:</p>
<p>"I should want a new lease of life to read this through! Why can't a
committee of this kind occasionally exhibit a grain of common sense?
If I send a man to buy a horse for me, I expect him to tell me his
points, not how many hairs there are in his tail!"--(Authenticated by
Mr. Hubbard, member of Congress of Connecticut, to whom the remark
was addressed.)
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