STUPENDOUS CONCEIT.
A celebrated man not long since received a just rebuke. A lecturer stated that the aforesaid celebrated man knew how to make a most excellent cup of coffee. A respectable minister wrote to him asking for the receipt. His request was granted, but at the bottom of the letter was the following manifestation of stupendous conceit : "I hope that this is a genuine request, and not a surreptitious mode of securing my autograph." To which the minister replied : "Accept my thanks for the receipt for making coffee ; I wrote in good faith, and in order to convince you of that fact allow me to return what you obviously nfinitely prize, but which isof no value to me : your autograph."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 249, 21 October 1893, Page 4
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121STUPENDOUS CONCEIT. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 249, 21 October 1893, Page 4
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