PAT AND TEE TELEPHONE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1849, 24 May 1888, Page 4

PAT AND TEE TELEPHONE.

Father O'Halloran had a telephone.put Into the parsonage which was m connection with the church, the parochial Bohoci, etc. Patrick M'Fee, bia raverenoe'a handy man, waß instructed m the use of the iustrnment; and it wsb only th 9 next day when Pat, dnating ont the church, heard the clatter of the telephone bell. Tnklng down the receiver, he waa pleased to hew Father O'Hallorßn's familiar voice asking him something or other about his work. Pat, m eßsaying to anowor, remembered that hla revorsnoo wns a long way off, and he conarqnen'ly halloaed into the trans mitter at the top of bia voloe. " I don't understand yo", Patrick," said the telephone. Pat tried again, with no better ■ncoess. On his third trial he caroe noar splitting the telephone ; bob again came Father O'Halloran'a voice ; " 1 can't he-r what you're saying Patrlok." Pat had by .this time lost some of his patience; and, as be stood gathering breath for a fourth blaßt, he could not refrain from sollloqnisIng In a low tone : " Ah, may the divii fly away wld tha onld fool !" But Pat dropped the telephone like a hot potato when he heard F«ther O'Balloran's voice once again : " Now I heer you p9rfectl/, Patrick."