A Scotch minister administering a rebuke to his man John for getting occasionally elevated in the course of his peregrinations on session business, John excusedhimself on the pleathatthe country folks pressed him so heartily to take a dram, ‘Well,’ replied the minister, in a tone of grave rebuke, ‘I also visit my people, but they never think of pressing me.’ * Ay, but,' says John, ‘ that may be because you are no sae respeckit in the parish as I am.’
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 18, 27 May 1871, Page 18
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79Page 18 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Mail, Issue 18, 27 May 1871, Page 18
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