AN UNNECESSARY QUESTION

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 147, 18 February 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

AN UNNECESSARY QUESTION

Hero is another exce'lont story told by the l?ov. Dr. C. l'\ Aked, who, ii> addition to tho controversy that !.o has aroused owing to h:s recent remer.;?- on the importation of munit'ons from America to tho Allies, has just caused a (.'teat deal of talk hy his critit_i.s-.ii of "sensationalism'" in the pulpst. There was once a man who wanted. ;r> he married in a hurry, so ho turned up with his intended hride at a clergyman's house at mmnight and insisted on heing wed there and then. Wrv 7-oluctantiy trie minister got up and drivsod. ami having waked some members of his household to act as wit-ues-av to the marriage he began to tie the nuptial knot. Ail went well until lie asked the bridegroom ' ,£ Do yon take tuis woman tn ho your lawfully we:: hd wiie? The man stared in aston-diiuent. " T sav." he ex< Ruined indignantly, "what do you suppose I (ailed you out o' bed at this hour o' n'glit for COV f-R The man had had some wonderful exI ru iii i'.- ■!i I' lMlnv. >o wonderful that one marvol'ed he was still alive. He only made one mistake. He told one -torv too many. I his is :t : "We were iomin<r along the road at MmU:-." he said, "when the Hermans opened tire with their machine gun«. Of coor-e we dwhed for cover. I \v:> 11a !\v. because if 1 hadn't hidden behind two kilometres 1 should have hcen riddh d w th bullets." There is nothing to prevent a che<|ii<* heing dra «vn upon an ordinarv sheet of paper, tliouuli :n this case the s;gna-*i.-e should be written across a penny stamn