HIT SOMEONE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 253, 4 December 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)

HIT SOMEONE.

Tli" minister ol ; i Isirfie parish had for ntme time. Ix-ou iiim-li troubled by the scandalous gossip that <ecmed to be occupying the in nds of a portion ot hi.flock, and, after exorcism;..' a ureal nruotint of t'ict and perseverance, at last succeeded in running to earth the inator of n-ost of the settlement's society slander. The guilty one w:i- a regular attendant at the schoollioiise services, ami the minister knew thiM should he take him to task personally iui| '.individually h«' would inevitably lose a sheep, albeit n black one.; so - he decided to bermouize him. According a special di-'courM' was pre. tired and "the 'foHo-'-ia-: L ; und it 3? '.< >•- [icon literal!" L'li tod at the Lf f e-ud:n.' Konbt'r 3t bfi ."'- a 1 1 deA th*. cir-L-r of the schoolroom Everybody pre~.nl appeared to fully a|.|.reciate the sll.ntion. and at the dose of the set .-ice departed quietly uml thotightfui'y homo the \