HUMOROUS INCIDENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3023, 15 April 1926, Page 3

HUMOROUS INCIDENTS.

AT METHODIST MEETING.

Some cases of mistaken identity were mentioned at last night’s Methodist jubilee meeting. The Rev. Frank McDonald (Presbyterian) started the ball rolling by stating that his ribs were sore through being jabbed (a forceful Methodist mode of greeting) in mistake for the ribs of a certain Methodist minister whom he was supposed to resemble. He said ho was thankful to say that he had good Presbyterian ribs to withstand the Methodist forceful greetting. (Laughter.) The Rev. McArthur (Levin) admitted that the rib-poking process was intended for him. Anyhow, the Rev. McDonald would now realise what a “good-looking chap” lie was. “In fact,” he said, “this rev. brother had once been mistaken for him (Rev. McArthur) by two ladies, and since then that gentleman had felt six inches taller!”

The Rev. Rugby Pratt (Palmerston North) said two little boys, scholars of St. Patrick’s day school, were passing him one day and one politely saluted and said, “Good morning, father.” Whereon the other lad said: “Garni he ain't a “father” he’s got two kids!” The representative who conveyed greetings on behalf of the local Anglican church, had apparently been sitting in a cramped position while waiting his turn to speak. He strode up the aisle with one trouser leg at “half-mast” exposing a neutral coloured sock and portion of a nether garment. The chairman graciously pulled the warden’s recalcitrant trouser down and presumably whispered in his ear that it was a church meeting and not an ankle parade!