Humour
A JOKE IN CHURCH. At an English church once there was a very large congregation, and the rector, seeing that there was only one alms dish, made signs to a rustic from the chancel entrance to come to him, and bade him go into the rectory garden, through a glass door into the dining room, where there had been a slight refection before the service, bring a dish from the tabic, take it down one side of the north aisle and up the other, and then bring it to the clergyman at the place from which he started. The rustic disappeared, reappeared with the dish, took it as he was ordered, and presented it to the people on either side of the aisle, and then, approaching the rector* whispered in his ear, “ I’ve done as you told me, sir. I’ve taken it down yon side the aisle and up t’other —they’ll none of ’em ’avo any.” No order had been given to empty the dish, and it was fall of biscuits!
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 11, 10 June 1893, Page 3
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172Humour Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 11, 10 June 1893, Page 3
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