A Louisiana paper has for its motto, " In Providence we trust; all others must come down with the cash." An old-fashioned minister was preaching in a tight, unventilated, church in which by some means a -window was left partly open. A good deacon during the sermon closed it. The minister stopped, and turning to the deacon, said in solemn tones, " If I wero preaching in a bottle, I believo you would put the cork in." " Mrs Sage, I should like to know whose ferry-boats these are that I tumbled over in the hall?" "Ferry-boats, indeed, sir! Those are nay shoes. Very polite of you to call them ferry-boats!" "I didn't say ferry-boats, Mrs Sage; you misunderstood me —fairy boots, I said, my dear friend."
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3016, 24 February 1881, Page 3
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