TWO CLERGYMEN IN A QUANDARY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 148, 17 March 1874, Page 2

TWO CLERGYMEN IN A QUANDARY.

Neither the lady nor the clergymen hereinafter mentioned belonged to Melbourne. The lady was easy in her virtue and chaster in her dress aud equipments than in her morals. But she could be modest in her manner when she chose, and affected a virtue which she had not. Oue day she went in her well-known trap, constructed to hold three, for a quiet drive along a country road, and on her return, to the city, overtook two clergymen walking quickly to escape an impending thunderstorm. She pulled up and politely invited them to take a seat to avoid a wetting. They thanked her and accepted, and she rattled them along at a rate, that put the fear of the rain out of their hearts. She talked church to them—she is everything to every man and prepared for any emergency. They were rather proud of returning to town in such a pretty trap driven by such a pretty -woman, but their pride got a fall when they reached the fashionable quarter of the city, for, quick as thought on some impulse of the evil one, the young woman, who by her conversation might have been a district visitor, and whom each would have jumped at for his Sunday school, whipped out a cigar, lighted it with a fusee, put herself in a striking character more artistic than elegant, and, heedless of their remonstrances, drove her pair of spirited little ponies round and round the principal streets at full trot. One of the clergymen, preached next Sunday to the pew-opener alone, and she declined to stay in the church with him by herself unless all the doors and windows were open.— Leader.