LIGHT REFRESHMENTS.
Dean Hole relates this incident, which occurred during the consecration of a country church. There was a very large congregation, and the rector, seeing that there was only one alms-dish, made signs to a rustic from the chancel entrance to come to him, and bade him go into the rectory garden, through a glass door into the dining-room, where there had been a slight refection before the service, bring a dish from the table, lake it down one side of the north aisle, and up the other, and then bring it to the clergyman at the place from where he started. The rustic disappeared, re-ap-peared with the dish, took it, as he was ordered, and presented it to the people on either side of the aisle, and then, approaching the rector, whispered in his ear, “I’ve done as yer told me, sir. I’ve taken it down yon side of the aisle and up t’other. They’ll none of ’em 'ave any.” No order had been given to empty the dish, and it was full of biscuits!
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1099, 21 September 1912, Page 4
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177LIGHT REFRESHMENTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1099, 21 September 1912, Page 4
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