MORE THAN HE EXPECTED.

Bush Advocate, Volume XVI, Issue 582, 5 December 1904, Page 3

MORE THAN HE EXPECTED.

A well-known Dean in* -the North pf England had the misfortune to lose his umbrella the other day, and, .suspecting that it. had been taken out of the Cathedral porch, announced. in his sermon the following Sunday that if the present possessor was present and would drop; it over the deanery garden that night, nothing more would be said about it.

The next, morning he took his usual hef ore-breakfast stroll in the garden, and there, scatterd all oyer the path that rap. along the hedge, he came across no fewer than forty-five umbrellas. , The meeting of some of the repentant thieves on the other side of that hedge must have been an amusing affair.

"How does it happen?" inquired the stranger, "that all the improvements are being made in this one street?"

\ "It doesn't happen at all, sir," replied the citizen whs was showing him about the place majestically. "This is the street I live in. I am chairman, of the Town Council, sir."