RATHER FLURRIED.
A biehop wa3 recently going the round of bis episcopal charge, and was the guest in a remote quarter of a country clergyman, who schooled his rustic servants before the bishop's arrival to be very careful in addressing him to pay "My lord." They were pretty well Gfot up in their parts ; but) one man waa so awed when the bit-hop addressed him that he inverted his sentences. The biahop said, " I want to send my letters to the post. How do you send them?" Upon which the man in hi* perturbation replied, "By tlulord, my boy," meaning, of course, " By the boy, my loid." o
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 179, 20 November 1886, Page 7
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108RATHER FLURRIED. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 179, 20 November 1886, Page 7
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