PROVIDENCE WAS WITH THE BIRDS
Nothing can surpass in delicacy the reply made by an East Indian servant of the late Lord Duffierin when he rWas . yicerby of India. ' * - • ' '. Well, what sort of sport has Lord— had ?' said - Lord Dlufferin one 'day to his*" servant, who had atten^- ' dad a young English lord on a shooting excursion. • Oh,' replied the scrupulously polite Hindu, ' the young sahib shot divinely, but Providence was very, "merciful to the birds.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 21 February 1907, Page 37
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76PROVIDENCE WAS WITH THE BIRDS New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 21 February 1907, Page 37
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