Whether it was that the bucolic mind moved too slowly to keep pace with the orator’s flying periods, or that the townsmen from London and the North were spell-bound by his fervid eloquence, or simply that the growing heat of the hall induced lethargy; certain it is that the meeting was quite orderly and decorous during the great speech.  Not until the chairman was again on his feet did trouble arise, and that was due to a simple question put by Eves.  But we must go back a little.