" I am about to do far you what the Evil One never did for ye," f-aid a quaint parson, in his '• valedictory" to his flock, " tbut is, I shall leave you." A gentleman was surprised during the fro3ty weather t> see his little daughter bring homo from thn -Sunday tchool library a grave treatise on "Backsliding." "My child," said he, " this in too old for you ; you oan'r. make anything out of it." " 1 know i*, ; apa, wa* the artless reply ; " but I thought I could when I took it. J. thought it would teach me how to alide backward."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1398, 11 May 1868, Page 3
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