IMPORTANT ANNIVERSARY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12257, 22 February 1937, Page 2

IMPORTANT ANNIVERSARY

02 YEARS AGO TO-lUv 'j

A MAST lilt OP RIDICULE

il'' died to-day in 1545 r ii' preacher, author, and wit. ’ 1 p; : . He was Sydney Smith, tie fP most surprising parson of hiday. He shocked everyone, and laughed at everyone and talked liis way to fame almost as D- s¥■ Johnson, did. " % When ho went to li ve h Yorkshire in a village ten,miletrom a lemon, he built his o\vi 11 liou-e and made it five times tm ftS big. lie had tour bedrooms fohimself, one for every season i l ' and two white gates, the second >1 one of which lie never pas cl without having to turn back for something he had forgotten. Hh Sk furniture was made by himself and tlie village carpenter and t‘S was so strong (that an earth- I' quake made no difference to it I' Y He must have been a good ma - ter for his servants never left him. He bought an old carriage I I i “an ancient green chariot sup' i' ■ posed to have been the earliest of its kind,’’ and had it lined by the village tailor, and patch- 1 °d by tlie village joiner, after J 1 !"■ which ho drove it like a Nimrodflic old folks aghast, the dogi &Y barking, and the children cheer- r ing. ; •'