Parish Humour.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 April 1910, Page 4

Parish Humour.

A CLERGYMAX AXI) HIS FLOCK.

fn a ohM'syman's intimato relations with his Hock there must be many h'um.jiou.s incidents, if he lias the yift to see them, which niiyht wjII make many mi book i eiiiinisvence. A I'e-w that Mm liev. ;-'il.iuait lU'i'iiays has eollui li»d in tiie •'CornhiH" are well worth repeating.

"A woniii.n iii a parish where I lived iiHf.'il (vich day t:i ]>rcp:ire herself for ill;. , - worst. I was eoinpliiiH'iitini!; her ciu , day en. the extreme tidiness of the house oveJi early in t.liu morning;.

" ' Yes,' she wtid, i always likes to 'aro my bed rooms done liuaj'ly, lor, as I albis sez, you never knows what may 'nppjii ;'uwsoon soino of (.hi , , c.ii.ii>l rtwi may bo brought 'ome in a lit o-r with a broken le(f, ii.nil, ■is 1 villus v. •■•/., it don't matU'r what 'ii|»j).-ns >■>) lonir :,s y-:;ii'\"(> _u;ot a lied room to put 'em into.'

"The c'oinplimi'.iiits that one nieels with are soiiit'tiines as sfmutely phrasivl as tilwy are generally liilir(iescrrcd. On my a ciii , - •mt an ol;l friend nf mine .said : 'Well I Ik , surry you're for I did 'i.pi , you would 'iivo (lie! Viv.' — wliic'ii was Ci-rtiiinlv morn than I ii'l.

"H'l-t in tint way of ti'Kiiinoni.'ils, tilt , o!H' whii'li I prize t'u , most w;is nreivi'd from a certain bislioj). Jle ■.v;n fiiinoiis l\ir the iniY-licilons w:iy Sic lnid fst' puttiiiu: things. f wiott , to ti'll him I v.'iis li'jim'ii.g; the dio-i-i'St'.. and to th.-nik him ICr his kiiulni'ys t;> nr.'. His it-ply wns shcrt ;ind I trust not to the point: 'Dwir Sir,-I am shmt ymi a.ro !t»a\'in.<: tny (iioci's , : , , for I have mu't-'i , heaid :uivt \)\h.% «<j;;-.i!:.st, von. Yours fa.ithfnlly. -'■--.' Tli'is at kvist a ni'.u'Mtin , kind of ti'.*tiinoirif>.l which lie useful to sonic of

"My vicar wry, leaving at the same time, .and I wns accoinpanvii'g liim t:> his new parish. He fared very little better at his Hisli•ip's hauls. 'AYell. -■' you and I have not always Keen eye to eye, but I might get a worse man.' So. with this episcopal blessing, we migrated to another diocese.

"1 mice atetiided a niiiyoral banquiet in a provincial 'town >at which the vicai , who hid newly ■) -ive-1 vii- pievii! .\\ .-lid , nan vas put i.p t;> prcpos.' Ii s lu-allh >ik! -v.ij. \trv anxio.is to p, v a .■cll-d •>• v<\! "omplinv.Mit to the new vicar's ]):>p;!hii v Hid th I .' was nis 1 , :. , '. iiei ■ f • Ving it.

■' ' Mr Mayor, cur new vicar h ,, ? ■"t lietoi 1 ■:11ti in makiiifi 1111>t.^(• if 1:1c-1 by all if us. .\s I was reniaiivio'j; *!i'.» other d'\v to some I'lT-n-ds, it'« a y.'.vv.] thing tliaf our vic:r h-'s net <_r ■■{ tho I'-ice of our N'Vj'us. or we «!iotiH have t , . l''ok cut for aur wives and daiigl/i-vs.' "