Gardeners mind their peas, and actors their cues, but churchwardens, instead of niindiug their p's and q's very often give their attention to their pews and keys. A Scotch minister administering a rebuke to his man John for getting occasionally elevated in the course of his peregrinations on session business, John excused himself on the plea that the country folks pressed him so heartily to take a dram. "Well," replied the minister, in a tone of grave rebuke, "I also visit my people, but they never think of pressing me." "Ay, but,"saj r s John, "that may be because you are no sac respeckit in the parish as I am."
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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 853, 21 April 1871, Page 2
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