Whitehaven Gazette Thurs. Mar. 25, 1897 Anecdote Competition | Anecdote Competition |
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| Whitehaven Gazette - Thurs. Mar. 25, 1897 | ||||||||||||||
Page 9 of 12 'TWERE ONLY DRIPPIN' The vicar of a parish, not many miles from here, was recently preaching a charity sermon, and, in the course of his remarks, he rebuked some of his parishioners who, he thought, simu- lated distress for the sadke of obtaining assistance they did not really require. As an illustration of this weakness, he mentioned that during one of his pastoral visits he entered the cottage of one of the supposed delinqents, where he found a large plateful of buttered toast before the fire. "Yes," he repeated, emphatically, "look like want?" In the brief pause that followed, a voice indignantly responded, "No, 'tweren't butter neither, 'twere only dripping'!" The effect of the correction upon the pastor was simply indescribable. Robert Edward THOMAS |
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