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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3167, 14 April 1879, Page 2

Thk follomna amusing incident is related by a traveller in the Central State! • ■—When we made an excursion in Southern Utah not\ long v*go we were hospitably entertained by the Mormon bishop at Richfield. He was a Scotchman, I and had been brought up a rigid Presbyterian. •• Ah, well?' said he, " they think ill of me at home for changing my religion ; but there is my brother Alee who took it most to heart. He wai on his way laßt year to California, and .tamed off .hip road a bit to see me, and tried to bring me back into the fold. When he got here he spent the whole evening lecturing me. and then went to bed. In the 'morning I gave him the best breakfast the country could afford—coffee, and rolli, trout, beef, and Tension steak, and such like. Poor Aleo Ihe looked all over the table, and then turned upon me his sorrowful face, blurting out, Oh, Jamie, < hion; Jamie;, moni did I ever think it would come to this P I could hae forgiea. ye a' yer poleegamy, bat hae ye gien up your paraiteh P "