HER GOOD QUALITIES
Some years ago, in a rural district in England, a farmer had a cow for sale. Now, as there .was no weekly ' paper to advertise in, it was the custom of the vicar to give such notices out on Sundays to his congregation. So the farmer thought he would go to the vicar and get "him to advertise the cow in church. ' Yes,' said the vicar, ' but you do not come to my church.' And they struck the bargain that the vicar should advertise the cow, and the farmer, in return, should go to church. Unfortunately, the farmer was very deaf, and on the Sunday following, when the vicar gave out the banns of marriage between Joseph So-and-So and Sarah So-and-So — a rather, unusual - incident, for they seldom had a wedding — the farmer took it for granted that the vicar was giving out particulars of his cow, and shouted out : ' You may as well say, as you are about it", that she is a most gentle creature, entirely free from vice, and a great eater.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8, 25 February 1909, Page 318
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178HER GOOD QUALITIES New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8, 25 February 1909, Page 318
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