A Good Excuse—ln a certain parish on the borders, not long since, an old clergy - Wan, who had got a strong-lunged helper, observed that one of his hearers was becoming rather irregular in his attendance at church. Of course the divine felt it his duty to visit the backslider, and he accordingly went to the house, but the gudeman was not in, He inquired of the wife why John was so seldom at church now. '■' Oh," she replied, without the least hesitation, "that young man ye've got roars sae loud that John camia sleep sae comfortable as he did when preaching yersel' sae peacefully,"
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1526, 18 November 1873, Page 17
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104Page 17 Advertisements Column 1 Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1526, 18 November 1873, Page 17
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