AN ANECDOTE OF “LANOE FALCONER’S’' FATHER.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 181, 20 January 1893, Page 7

AN ANECDOTE OF “LANOE FALCONER’S’' FATHER.

The late Rev. Stephen Hawker, vicar of Morwenstow, Cornwall, was often required to read the letters received by the peasants, and sometimes to write their replies. On. one occasion he was reading a letter sent to an old lady by her son, who was in Brazil. ‘ 1 cannot tel l you, dear mother,’ wrote the lad, ‘ how the muskitties (mosquitoes) torment me. They never leave me alone, but pursue me every where.’ •To . think of that 1’ interrupted the old woman, ‘ My Ezekiel must be a handsome lad. But I’m interrupting you; do go on, please, parson.’ ‘ Indeed, mother,’ continued the . vicar, reading, ‘ I shut ray door and window of an evening to keep them out of r>>- ’ 1 Dear life !' w!« ■■ ye?,* coiitiiiued r. u vivar, fhey de . h - me alone. I believe they come down t.. chimney to get at me.’ ‘ Well, well, pars .n,’ exclaimed the old woman, holding up her hands, ‘to think how forward of them 1’ ‘Of whom ?’ ‘ Why, the Miss Kitties, sure. When I were young, maidens would have blushed to do such a thing. And come down the chimney, too 1’ After a pause, the mother’s pride prevailing, ‘ But my Ezekiel must be rare handsome for the maidens to be after him so. And I reckon the Miss Kitties is quality is folk, too !’