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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18333, 24 February 1923, Page 5 (Supplement)

"INNOCENT" BISHOP. The Bishop of Norwich used to tell the following story against himself. Walking one day in a quiet suburb, he heard the thin, piping voice of a child crying, "Oh, please, sir, would you mind opening this gate for me?" Delighted to assist, the good Bishop opened and held back the gate for tha child. The latter, however, upon a closer examination, proved to be older than he had at first thought, which made him pleasantly ask why she herself could nob open the gate. / "Well, you see, sir," she said, with an arch smile, "the paint is wet, and I should have got it all on my hands." An examination of his own hands amply confirmed the truth of her statement. the BLUSHING curate. Mi.49 Helen Mar in her book of stories recalls that of a very young and nervous curate who had to discourse one morning upon the vicissitudes of Jonah and the whale. And for three days and three nights," he began, "Jonah was in the—." Ho blushed, stammered, stopped, and then started again. "I\>r three days and three nights Jonah was in the—" Once more he was covered with confusion, and once more he stopped and mopped his face, from which the perspiration was literally pouring, with his handkerchief. Then he gathered his courage in both hands, and with a mighty effort he finished triumphantly : "And for three days and three "nights Jonah was in the society of the whale J"