In a Scottish country parisb a wellknown joker was chatting with the minister, who jocularly said: "T suppose, James, you have in your time made up noiirlv as many witticisms as 1 have sermons?" .lames: "Wecl, T. dinna ken; but ve have a great advantage ower me." Minister: "In what way?" James: "In this way. If T try tae palm off an mil* joke on' the editors the thing's detected at once; but foiilk nay sae little heed tae sermons that when an mil* ano's preached it gangs doon jist as well as n bran-new discoorse."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 67, 13 December 1918, Page 6
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96Untitled Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 67, 13 December 1918, Page 6
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