The Chaplain's Retort.
A German paper contains a reply from a clergyman who was travelling, and who stopped at a hotel much frequented by commercial travellers. The host, not being used to having clergymen at his table, looked at him with surprise. The travellers used all their artillery of wit upon him, without eliciting a remark in self-defence. The worthy clergyman ate his dinner quietly, apparently without observing the jibes and sneers of his neighbours. One of them at last, in despair of his forbearance, said to him : " Well, I wonder at your patience. Have you not heard all that has been said against I you ? " " Ob, yes ; but lam accustomed to it. Do you know who I am 1 " "No, sir." " Well, I will inform you. lam chaplain of a lunatic asylum. Such remarks have no effect upon me."
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Otago Witness, Issue 1967, 5 November 1891, Page 45
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140The Chaplain's Retort. Otago Witness, Issue 1967, 5 November 1891, Page 45
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