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NZ Truth, Issue 136, 25 January 1908, Page 5

Now that the clerical gentlemen are so prominently before the public,, a tit-bit from an English exchange js too good to be lost sight of. The new curate had given his first sermon, and the wife of the chief churchwarden asked her husband on his returning from church, what countryman the new man was— lrish or Scotch ? When the churchwarden said he didn't know the wife said, "Surely you can tell that much ; did he roll his r-r's ?" The churchwarden, who had evidently misunderstood the qiuestion, said : ''No; I don't, see him roll his ears. He stood quite still all the time.'i