BEATRIX AND THE BISHOP.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 730, 1 February 1910, Page 6

BEATRIX AND THE BISHOP.

I Sir,—l have often told ."Beatrix''' ' how. much- I' I, dislilted her ,-writing; tothe papers, dud I shrewdly suspect that she has done it' just to spite me. For. I may 'tell yWV. .'con r lidentiatly;. that .we- had' a' row last night, anil when, she's riled she's a • spiteful l little: minx.She 1 asks' .you the following riddle:—"ls the Bishop 'Neligan, who complains of the, townsmen's neglect of. the back-blocks' settlers, the same' as the. Bishop; Neliganwho stays at the best hotels, who drives a and who'lives in a: bishop's,palace?"; I could have- told her, but she wont speak .to me, 'so I will .answer her. riddle to you. No, they must be. two entirely- different people. The' former Bishop Neli?iin I know all about. He is an excollont. i;,; self-denying, ■. earnest : man, who works hard to better the condition of all who travail and are heavy ,laden. The other Bishop Neligan I have never heard, of, nor do I ,bolievp he exists, except in poor. "Beatrix's" disordered fancy. I suspect, too; that' the' heavy rain which prevented Her i from wearing lier ; new flower-garden -hat may have given an .extra point to her spite. Poor little :"Beatrix!"—l am. etc.. •

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