ONE ON THE SEXTON
Alexander Graham Bell,, whose experiments promise to give him as wonderful a, success with the flying machine as he had with the telephone, at a dinner in Washington told this story : Many years ago an aged friend of mine. visited a church in Miaine one Sunday morning. As soon as the sermon began my friend, who was very deaf, took, from his pocket an ear trumpet in two parts and proceeded to screw the parts together. While he was engaged in this work he noticed that the sexton, from his seat near the pulpit, kept frowning and shaking his head at him. Finally, just as my friend got his trumpet joined and made as if to put it to hi's ear, the sexton hastened to him and whispered fiercely : IYe can't play that here. If ye do I'll put -ye out.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 47, 21 November 1907, Page 38
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145ONE ON THE SEXTON New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 47, 21 November 1907, Page 38
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