He gave an epic sense to the story of emigration and colonisation.

But he was invariably clear and lucid in his detail, so that the immediate and practical meaning of it all was never lost on the mayors, and corporation and council worthies, who heard him.

Then miles and miles away at the second important stopping-place in the early afternoon, after incidental wayside speeches and idylls, he went over the same ground in a further address of an hour or more.

Somehow in the afternoon he appeared to speak with added individuality and passion, as if the wants and woes of the world had been growing upon him since the morning.
"A needed rest, perhaps a little sleep, then away once more by the waysides and through the welcoming hamlets.

The third and last great stopping-stage was reached, as a rule, about eight o'clock.
He typified serene old age as he stood up in the white car, passing the long lines of cheering humanity.