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New Zealander, Volume XXII, Issue 2431, 17 May 1865, Page 3

A Smart Retort.—lt may be difficult to say whether Mr. Heywooi was most remarkable for his eccentricities, his great learning and wit, or his piety and devotedness. He carta nl. possessed all these characteristics in no common measure. A sister of my grandfather, in c.»r.y life, kept the house of her relative, Christop'ier Ball, who so often entertained Mr. H 3/wood. In her latter years she resided with her brother, and used to apeak of Mr. Hey wood's appearance as very grotesque, as he rode up to the house on his old grey horse, which seemed little more' than skin and bone, attired in leather breeches and enormous Jack boots, with a huge wig and well-worn coat to match. It is told o£ him that on one, occasion, as he was riding in.o Cambrdge he was met by three collegians, who, in their simplicity, thought to make sport of the quaint-looking figure they saw. approaching; so, &oiug a little.iu advance one of another, the first said as Air. Hey wood came op, ' SVell, Father Abraham;' the second, ' Well, Father Isaac;' andth«third, '-Well, Father Jacob.' Upon which the go >d min bad* them stop, and thus smartly answere. their folly:■—' Young , men, I am neither Father Abraham, nor Father Isaac, nir Father Jacob, but if you would liken me onto ary Scripture charact-r, I think I may be compared to Saul, the son of Kish, who went out to seek his father's asses, and lo I her) I have found them.'— From Memorials of the Rev. Wm. Bull.