THE RETORT DIRECT.
A park orator was returning home, flushed with, his oratical efforts and from other causes, found a mild curate sitting opposite in the tnamcar. ''lt may int'rest you to know," he jiaid truculently, that I don't believe in the existence of a 'eaven!" The curate nodded, and went on reading his newspaper; the man, desirous of an argument, repeated Ids declaration. The curate again nodded, again tumping to his newspapen. "You don't I quite realise what I am trying to make clear," said the park orator. "I want you to understand that I don't believe for a single solitary moment that such a place as 'eaven exists-' "All right, nil right," answered the curate pleasantly. "Go to hell, then. Only, don't make quite so much fuss i about it! "
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 9 February 1917, Page 3
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132THE RETORT DIRECT. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 9 February 1917, Page 3
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