COMPTON COUTTS
WOULD BE A PARSON Way back in Kurraboorooga or somewhere, when Compton Coutts was ten, it was his often sincerely expressed wish to become a minister. Times when the local minister would pause gravely at the front gate, then saunter elegantly up to the Coutts’s front door, later to be refreshed with tea and smooth yellow scones oozing melted butter all over the rev.’s kneecradled liat, the young Compton would pocket his top and sidle in to listen with feverd interest to the local small talk. After the minister’s departure he would carefully practice the juggled manoeuvres of the balanced teacup and the scone and solemnly vow he would become a wearer of the cloth and partake of tea and scones in every home in Kurraboorooga. But he grew out of that and as a direct reaction went on the stage. Recently he realised his kid ambition when he donned the cloth and gaiters of Rev. Meekin in "For the Term of His Natural Life.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 49, 20 May 1927, Page 13
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167COMPTON COUTTS Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 49, 20 May 1927, Page 13
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