SUSPICIOUS.
A. certain churchwarden lias.'his own way of dealing with eases of doubtful charity.
One Sunday morning he was on his way round wit& the plate, arid at last reached, a man of questionable generosity^-^ -■::'',' ■. ; .-,;.'.■■■-■ •':. >; . ■
The latter, remembering it is finer ■that one should not publish one's good deeds too widely, concealed his donation in his fist and reached, for the plate, whereupon the churchwarden,' withdrawing it before he could reach it, said in a stern whisper: "Give it to me, sir; one ha^ just come off my waistcoat." .-• ' .'; -:. ■ -■='■-■>:-:■'.'. •. •■
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Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 35, 6 February 1930, Page 10
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89SUSPICIOUS. Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 35, 6 February 1930, Page 10
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