ARCHBISHOP MAGEE’S JOKES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9119, 11 April 1908, Page 6

ARCHBISHOP MAGEE’S JOKES.

It is odd to find (writes Mr T. P. O’Connor) old Punch jokes brought home by Sir Henry Drummond Wolff to Archbishop Magee. My readers, lam sure, will remember the ' exquisitely refined-looking young lady in Punch who thanks the gentleman for the vicarious relief of a torrent of curses he has just poured out upon the underground porter who slammed the gate on his face. “Oh, thank you ; thank you so much !” she cried on hearing her own feelings so adequately expressed. Well, here is a variant of the joke which Sir Drummond Wolff assures you belonged to Archbishop Magee. At a picnic, towhich his Grace was invited by a gentleman in diocese, everything in the luncheon basket had been so confusedly packed that the hungry and distracted host used extremely strong/ language, to the horror of his wife. “What will the Archbishop think?” she wondered, but was not left long in doubt or in pain either. “How fortunatecried his Grace, “that we have a layman here to make use of the appropriate language!” Again I am sure my readers will remember that picture in Punch representing a Hiahop in a third-class railway carriage pompously rebuking the flppant freedom of a farmer who had thus accosted him: “Curate, I suppose?” “I was a curate once ” “Drink, 1 suppose?” suggested the farmer, as the only conceivable explanation of his having ceased to bo a curate. This, Sir Drummond Wolff assures us, was a real experience of .Archbishop Magee’s.