Episcopalian Dyspepsia
NOTHER guest I don’t like is the finicky eater. Such people never seem to be pleased with any of your efforts, turn their food sadly about with their forks and then leave most of it on their plates. They’re most annoying and make you feel yourself a real failure, so that I comfort myself with the true story of a rude little boy whose mother lately entertained a very distinguished prelate. Now, this small child had a regrettable habit of swearingand you must put in the bad-very bad-words for yourself. He had been bribed with the promise of a tricycle if he didn’t swear while the bishop was there --but unfortunately the great man was suffering from indigestion and the hungry little boy had to watch . his mother’s best cooking efforts being refused: "No, he never ate that. Thank you, but the other was quite impossible for him." At last the child could bear it no longer and) exclaimed with quite his worst oaths-"Never mind the tricycle; give the old beast an egg!"’-and the bishop left by the next service car. -(" Between Ourselves: The Perfect Guest," by Mrs. Mary Scott, 3YA, November 18.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 128, 5 December 1941, Page 5
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195Episcopalian Dyspepsia New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 128, 5 December 1941, Page 5
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