Tho vicar's posers for children arc of (such a character as to render credible many of the howlers which examinations annually bring forth. Perplexity comes also to children of older growth, i and many a candidate has cursed tho ronfusion of Cromwell. Thomas and ! Oliver and tho relations of tho first with Wolsoy. It afforded Gladstone ono of the laughs of his old ago to hear the question and answor: "What do you know of Oliver Cromwell?" "Ho cut off his kings head and usurped the kingdom. Afterwards ho was filled with remorse, and exclaimed, when dying, 'Would that I had served my God as I have sorved my j king!'"
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 213, 28 May 1918, Page 4
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111Untitled Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 213, 28 May 1918, Page 4
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