THE RETORT COURTEOUS.
An economical clergyman in. a suburban township, not a thousand niilcs from Auckland, called at the shop of a local bootmaker the other day to gets his boots repaired. ■ ' "While watching the local son of St. Crispin engaged in patching" the ecclesiastical understandings, the clergyman opened up a conversation, which gradually drifted to the • subj ect of poetry. L ' Oh, I don't like poetry, " * .'rather testily remarked the clergyman," and they 'phanged the subject"-. The repairs *' laving*', been finished, he paid for the work, and . w|j|i. about to leave, but paused on the threshmd,- and remarked casually — "Oh, I forgot to mention th iit I shall hold a ' h arvest thanksgiving service ' on Sunday, and I trust you ;will all attend." Then the poetical man liad hislittle innings. " Oh, I don't like prosy ; sermsii|fe 3 ' he replied.- The clergyman was stumps|M and sorrowfully bore away his boots, w>-^totless remembering the old saying—" There is nothing like leather." t ■_._ _ _!^
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 232, 21 February 1885, Page 3
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161THE RETORT COURTEOUS. Observer, Volume 7, Issue 232, 21 February 1885, Page 3
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