TRAPPING THE PARSON.
As William Morris'was an Englishman, it may not seem remarkable to Americans that he did not- always get his jokes right end first. In a biography of hpr husband. Mrs Edward BurneJones tells of the ease with which he reversed them. They had all been asking conundrums. "Who killed his brother Gain?" asked Burne-Jones. ;— - -■ - --; -■ ~r .Morris fell into the trap at once. "Abel!" he shouted. Later in the day he came in laughing. "I trapped the parson, by Jove!" he exclaimed. "I asked 'Who killed his brother Abel?' " 'Gain,' he said at once. '"Ha!' I said. 'I knew you'd say that. Every one does. I came away doubt if he's found out yet what the and left him puzzled enough—and 1 matter was.""Youth's Companion."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 72, 24 March 1906, Page 14
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