POLYGAMY AND PORRIDGE.
When wo made an excursion in Southern Utah not long ago we wore hospitably entertained by the Mormon bishop at Richfield. He was a Scotchman, and had been brought up a rigid Presbyterian. “ Ah, well,” said h>*. “ they think ill of me at home for changing my religi > n ; but there is my brother Aliok, who took it most to heart. Ho was on his way last year to California, and turned off the road a bit to see me, and to try and bring me back to the fold. When he got here he spent the whole evening lecturing me, and then went to bed. In the morning I gave him the best breakfast the country would afford—coffee and rolls, trout, beef and venison, steak, and such like. Poor Aleck ? he looked all over the table, and then turned upon me his sorrowful face, blurting out, • eh, Jamie, men ! did I over think it would come to this. I could hae forgiven ye a’ yor poleegamy, but line ye gie'n up yerparritch f”
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Dunstan Times, Issue 890, 9 May 1879, Page 3
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