Lost in the Wood.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 111, 18 April 1883, Page 2

Lost m the Wood.

'Iwas m the wilds of the Gipps Laud foreßt that the' Episcopalian and Wes-, ley an ministers performed their separate services at the little clearing a couple of Sundays ago. -Leaving on horseback, ancl haying ho tear "pf/'Gregprian. anathema before their eyes, and fegarfiU less of Rogers," they actn'ally ifode together, along the woodland track. And a thing more dreadful than an exchange of pulpits happened. After a timeiLWiites " JSjlesr L in-the Australasian) they. found,th>it their horsss were walking along ihe trunks of fallen trees, and otherwise: showing; .acrobatic, dispositions. This 'led "to the' 'codcrusioii that they, had got off the ; bridle-path, which w.as fully- confirmedjj at .tiightfail by their arriving at a point wnich they remembered haying passed se'yeriti hours be^fore. Inhere was nothing for; it bufc to camp for. a time. The wnd -waSc'iiH 1 , and the parsons ill!-provided : agkinst inclement... weather. At last a happy thought suggested itself. The Anglican took his surplice from his saddle-bag^, and his .W^esleyan : brother found .tbTe sticks, by means of which they .ira^pro vised 4 tent,. under which, both crept for shelter. After; a'few hdurV the risea mppn enabled tKeni to make a fresa start, and this time! they'kept the track. It is probably the "first time a clerical vestment- has • served ras a tent for a Methptlisti but,".-as in 'the exchange of pulpits, no, one seems J tb" h&ye been a penny the worse !