Humorous Stories.

Manawatu Herald, 13 November 1900, Page 3

Humorous Stories.

The late Bishop Waltham Howcollected a number ot humorous stories which his son has published under the title of •• Lighter moments, from the Notebook ot Bishop Waltham How." A boy being asked the meaning of . archangel, replied, an angel who came ; out of the ark. i Another said a parable is a heavenly story with no earthly meaning. The mother of a pupil in a school for physiology conducted by a country rector, wrote to the latter saying :— " Reverend Sir,— Please not to teach our Susan any more about her inside, it makes her so proud." An old woman speaking of the wonders of the heavens, expressed her , astonishment at the sun rising in the ' -east, whereas it sets in the west. " I suppose " she said " it gets back in the '■ night when it is dark." j Another woman complained that her husband was very sick. " But" she • added "Ido my very best for him. I j read the burial service to him every \ day, to get him used to it." j The following anecdote of Bishop ] is given by the late Bishop i •Waltham How :— The Bishop of Win- j Chester (Wilberforce) is renowned for j his wit. I was one day dining in his ; company. He was to the right of the lady of the house, Canon G to her ! left, and I next to him. Canon G j was talking to the bishop across the ' lady of the house about a very old man, and observed, that he was losing his faculties very fast, his sense of taste and smell being so completely gone that some naughty boys in his house, knowing that he always had a lightly-boiled egg for breakfast, blew it one morning and filled it with castor oil, and he never found it out, The bishop looked up with one of his merry j twinkles, and simply said " never ?" i