THE CURATE AND THE BRICKLAYER.
A onrate oac^dld a good thin; In thN way. While walking along the street at the dinner boar be passed a lot of brioklayern smoking their after dinner plpeß, snd heard one of them say : "Id like to bo a panon, and have naught to do bat to walk about la a long black ooat and osvry a walklng-stlok m my &it and get a good lot of brass."
Of ooDrao there wan a laugh at the parnon'o expen c, bub he turned abarply rouod and replied :
"Bo you'd liko to be a parson 1 flow ranch do you get a week ?''
I'Twonty-s van shlltngs," w*n thereply. ' Well," Bald tha oarats, « though I'm cn'y n poor m»n, 1 11 give you twen'y«even shillings If you'U oonae along with me for six d»ys and see how you like It. Tsen you'll be better able to talk abqrit It."
The bricklayer tried to baok oui of It, bat hln mutes told him ; "Nay mou, fchoa said thoo'd Ilka It; tbon oaqn go with the pireon chap." So ho pat on his coat and started with tho ouc«to amid a roat of laughter. The piraon presently turned dorm an alley and told his oompanion that they were going to eea a. eick man, and that be must ai'nd. pqt to make a nolne going upstairs " '* What might bo the matter with him?' asked thu brloklayer.
" Small-pox," o»ld the parnon. "Oh thPD," said the man, •' l'll jcut w*lt oirtalde for you, elr, for I've not h%d It myself, aad I've got a wife and ohlldren to think of,"
"That's exactly my ease," said the ornate ; " for I've not bad it, and I have a wife and ohlldron depending on me. But yon agreed to cotno with me wherever I went,"
The man of brloks began not to like It, and after hesitating for a moment he asked :
" And where *re yon gong next f The person told him they wonld have to visit another honno thit day, where tho father lay In his coffia, and all the family were down with the Boarlet fever, aud also a bouaa where there whb typhus, an 1 on tho morrow there would bo a lonee* round. * Thia a >nred tho hrleklayev
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2251, 12 October 1889, Page 2
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379THE CURATE AND THE BRICKLAYER. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2251, 12 October 1889, Page 2
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