A SMART SINNER.
This : incident occurred in a West of England town some twenty years ago. An eceentfic individual of the Eanting persuasion was in the habit every Sunday morning of perambulating the town at about eight o’clock as he went. At length scarcely anyone troubled him by listening, so one Sunday morning he got into a quiet street and commenced shouting “ Fire ! Fire I! Fire !! I” very energetically. Up go a dozen windows, and “Where, where ?” resounded on all sides. “ Below, for sleepy sinners,” responded the holy one. Quick as lightning he had the contents of a water-jug over him, with the advice to “ Take that and put it out.”
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 920, 23 February 1881, Page 5
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111A SMART SINNER. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 920, 23 February 1881, Page 5
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