Whitehaven Gazette Thurs. Mar. 25, 1897 Anecdote Competition | Anecdote Competition |
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| Whitehaven Gazette - Thurs. Mar. 25, 1897 | ||||||||||||||
Page 8 of 12 BETTY WILSON AT CHURCH A newspaper paragraph of 1867 stated that a decent looking country-woman, with two children, wlaked into a church near Penrith, one Sunday morning, just in time to hear the clergy- man give out the text: "Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are ye?" In great amazemnet the woman said: "Wya, sir, I's Betty WILSON frae Langaleddle, an' this is awer Tommy, an' this is awer lile Mary, an'we's gangan to see my brother Jwony; an' I thawt I'd just step in an' see wht ye war aa makkan here." S. S. SHERWEN The How, Seascale. |
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