HOW THE PASTOR LIED.
Old Parson S., of Connecticut was a particular kind of a person. One day he had a man ploughing in h's field, and he went out to see how the work was getting on. The ground was very stony, and every time tho plough struck a stone the man took occasion to swear a little.
* Look here,’ cried Parson S.. * you must not swear that way in my field.’ * Well, I reckon you’d swear too,’ said the man, 'if you had to plough such a stony field as this. ’ •Not a bit of it,’ said Mr S. ‘Just let mo show you 1’ So the Parson took hold of tho plough, hut he very soon had considerable trouble with the stoues. As stone after stone canght the ploughshare Mr 8. ejaculated—- * Well, I never saw the like !’
And this ho repeated every time a stone stopped his onward way. As soon as he had ploughed around once he stopped, and said to the man —
‘There now ! You sec I can plough without swearing.’ • Bnt I gueas it's pretty near as bad to lie, answered the man, ‘and you told a dozen o’ lies. Every time the plough struck a stone you eaid, “ I never saw the like,” when the same thing happened a minute before.*
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2204, 19 March 1881, Page 3
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