The parish minister of'C, fh Scotland, was examining a class of small boys on their reading exercises. The lesson was on the life of a pious man. The minister, in order to test the intellects of the boys, told them he would give a penny to the boy who should first tell him what a pious man was. Silence reigned for a moment, and then a tousle-headed urchin at the bottom of the class, whose joyful face proclaimed that he was in possession of the grand seoret, snapped his fingers in great glee and shouted out: "Iken'i I ken't, Mr Minister!" " Well, my little boy, will you'kindly inform us what it means V " It's a man that bakes pies, sir." .' . The G.O.F. (Grand Old Feller): A very <rees-onable old man ; full of fdl destruotiveness. The Grand Old Feller'a relaxation (real-axe-ation): Chopping trees,
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Evening Star, Issue 7472, 16 March 1888, Page 2
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