WON BY WIT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 307, 4 September 1917, Page 4

WON BY WIT.

In tlm r'ign of Francis I. of France, qui kne -• of wit was often more pinmptlv rewarded than actual merit. T!i'' monk. Rcgniei Mainus did not |,kl; ntirit, but he owed hii first ad- ., ■ crm , i,i nevertheless, to a clever i retort. ; Pram is, who was very fond of the frame r.| tennis, was playing a match one d.i\ with Mainus. The monk finally ended the hard-fought'game with a, brilliant stroke. _ I The King was somewhat out of humour on account of his defeat. "Remarkable." be exclaimed, sarcastically "to think that <=uch a stroke should be made bv a mere monk!" "Rut, sire," replied the monk, who was as quirk with his wit as he was with his racket, "it is Your Majesty's' own fault that the stroke was not made' bv an abbot." A week later Mainus received his ap. 1 pointment as abbot of Beaulieu.