HIS EASTER OFFERING.
» "I am come for your Easter offering, Mr. La3t," observed an ecclesiastical official lately to the parish cobbler, looking over tho half-door behind which the little cobbler sat busily at his work "And what is an Easter offering, and why snould I give it?" enquired the cobbler, who was well known for bis unorthodox opinions. "Well, never you mind about that; only give it, that's all." "Won't you stop" and take a bit of bacon with me, Mr. Clerk, for I am just going to havo my dinner?" "No, thank you ; I want your Easter offering." "Well, thon, take a drap o summat warm ; I've got some ale yonder upon the hob." The clerk could not help looking wistful, but ho replied stoutly, as before, that he only wanted the Easter offering. ? 'At least you will tako a pipe" insisted tho cobbler; "hero arc tobacco and a box of lucifers." The clerk absolutely shook his head. "Very well," observed tho cobblor, with a chuckle. "I'vo tried ye with a meat-offering, with a drink-offering, and with a burnt offering, and now you will havo no other sort 'of offering from mo, I JK2sy se . £§•"' ke;pt kif .word.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 66, 15 September 1906, Page 10
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199HIS EASTER OFFERING. Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 66, 15 September 1906, Page 10
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