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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 16 October 1914, Page 2

A young Irish curate was preaching his first sermon, and chose for his text the miracle of the loaves and fishes. He was very nervous, and read it, " And they fed five people with five thousand loaves of bread and five thousand fishes." Thereat one of the rustic hearers murmured, loud enough to tte heard: "That's no miracle, begorra. I could do that myself." The curate overheard him, and so on the following ■ Sunday he announced the same text, but had it right this time : "And they fed five thousand people with five loaves of bread and a few fishes." He paused a second, and then leaned over the pulpit and said :— "Could you do that, Mr. Murphy?" Murphy replied : "Sure, yer riverence, I could." "And how could you do it ?" asked the priest. "Sure, yer riverence, I could do it with what was left over from last Sunday."