A BISHOP WHO LOVED TOBACCO.
A certain worthy Bishop was fond of a quiet smoke, and he did not think that the habit was out of keeping with his high office. The' archdeacon of the diocese, however, thought differently, % and did not hesitate to proclaim his opinion. On one occasion the archdeacon was the guest of the Bishop, and preached at the cathedral evening service. Having returned to the episcopal palace. he_ was gazing from the library window, when he detected the Bishop walking! in the garden belqw, and smoking a cigar, as he thought, in safe privacy. “Ah, Bishop,” said the. Archdeacon, as he opened the window, “so I have caught you burning incense to the devil.”' “Perhaps you have,” retorted the Bishop, “but I didn't know he was so near.”
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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 42, 22 June 1908, Page 8
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132A BISHOP WHO LOVED TOBACCO. Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 42, 22 June 1908, Page 8
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