Correcting the Pabson.—A. clergymen, having been inducted into a_ living •in Kent, took occasion during his first sermon to introduce the word " optics." At the conclusion of the service a farmer who was present thonked him for his discourse, but intimated that be had made a small mistake in one word, softening down at the.same time the severity of his criticism by saying—"Yet we all knew very well, sir, what you meant." On the clergyman's making further inquiries about th.is wo^d the" farmer replied, " What you called, hop-sticks in this part of the country we call hop-poles'."
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2080, 3 September 1875, Page 3
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