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Evening Star, Issue 3700, 31 December 1874, Page 3

A Good-Looking Minister.— At a country church on the Borders, some time since, a young minister, a great swell, came to do duty for the clergyman. On entering the vestry, he doffed his coat and vest previous to donning the cassock and cloak, and looked round for the looking-glass, which generally forms part of the vestry furniture. He searched, however, in in vain. At last quite losing patience, he cried out, “ Church offsaw! church offsaw 1” After •ailing out, some tune, the head of a gray-haired man peeped in at the door, and a stentorian voicedemanded ‘‘What’syour-yvull?” “Where’s the mirraw?” demanded the minister. “ Sir,” said the other. “The mirraw—the lookingglass,” said the minister empathicallv. “Oh, the looking-glass. You see ’oor minister’s is sic a hah’some man naitcrally, that he does ’na need a looking-glass'; but a’U bring ye a pail’o water, if ye fflce, ta gw a bit gledge iota, to see