Such a Whopper.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 32, 8 January 1885, Page 4

Such a Whopper.

>'„! i ■ ;)l ; :■ ; . • t — r+v! . ; ■•< 5. /. An amusing anecdote is related of MrT'Layafclf 'late ' ton&fc f o¥ • #iji. This ffenial-heattetl old gen.tjLe.pan, ! who 1 was" perhaps the ;'popv^r i G:6verrinlent 'official I 'ever known m j| the iislands, was'a'n ittv6terate'fisnetf-j man, and might have been seen 'm : all weathers ahd.at.alL hours* bf the ddy; seated iat the end -of >vthe little pier that adjoined his ! residence m j Levuka, hauling m fish of a"ll shapes j and size& . : Qne' Sunday m church ! Mr. Floyd (the vicar)- has just concluded an interesting/ accoiunt ofj one of those miracles" that are'fre- j quently. such a sore trial to the! ere- I dulity of the too suspicious layman j when the .audience were not a little | shocked to hear the consul ebjacu- ! late, iii' tones- that may be best •■ des- \ cpibedias ;'shouting: in?a w.hisperj 1 ; the following ,.v.ecy apropos words, i ' Such a whopper ! ' It seems that ; tKeolcl "gentleman Had ~been mere- | ly describing to a fellow«-worshipp,cra ' lively . Encounter • that ' f had - taken place on the previous day between himself and a .very large fish,, which had resulted m the escape of the latter* together with the consul's blessings and several yards of line, and that the said fish being, as is usually the case with escaped fish, the * largest one of the season,' r the words'; 'such a ' bo£ePreference to the lost 'monster of the deep, 1 an/1 not to the miracle, m the truth of which the consul firmly believed, but it. was diffictrit'-ito^matfe the congregation take the same view of the matter. • ■ ■ ' - 1 ' ,'■'■■' ' '. . '"■' ..." j' 1 . 1 . ".'' '".' "i ".'j'