Mother: " What is the matter, child, dren? Johnnie, what are 70a erring, for P" Johnnie: " Why, mother, when* erer I get anything nice, Tommy always takes it away. And now he hag jaat drunk up all my physic again!" \ When Wilberforce became rector of Brighton, in the Isle of Wight, be was waited on by an old farmer, whose one desire in life was to rent 4he glebe acre. "Why?" asked the bishop. "Well," said the old fellow, with a look of business shrewdness, " when t'other parson was here he used to farm it hisself, and there being so little of it he always got in hay before anybody else. Then he clapped on the prayer for rain! "
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3657, 15 September 1880, Page 2
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118Untitled Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3657, 15 September 1880, Page 2
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