A RELIGIOUS DIFFICULTY.
"Caltrop" in the "Cornhill" explains how a wife told a. priest that she and her husband only had words once a year on the' matter of religion, and this on the 12th of July.
"Aye. the Twelfth, right enough. When he comes horns with a sup of drink in him, after being all day with, the drums, he looks at His Holiness very wicked. Then he takes him down from the wall and jumps on him. Then he goes to bed very quiet." " weU,_ and what do you do?" i "Nothing, your reverence, till next morning-. Then I gets, tip early, I takes down King William, and I goes out and pawns him and buys a new Pope with the money and hangs him up. And I leaves the pawntioket on the chimney-piece." "And what does your _ husband say when he finds King William gone?" "Never a word out of him. sir. He just takes the pawntioket and goes out and releases King William and put* him baok. And we're quiet and peaceful for another ye»r,"
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 17
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179A RELIGIOUS DIFFICULTY. Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 17
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