All the Difference.
A young minister was settled in a country chaige, where his house was a long way from the church. lie was fond of horses, and not only drove about the district tandem fashion during the week, but shocked some. of his conservative people by driving tandem also to and from church on Sunday. One of his elders wont into the -vestry at the close of the eervice one Sunday to remonstrate with him. "Why!" said the minister, "what is there wiong in driving them tandem more than in driving them abreast?" "It disna look weol on the Sabbath," replied the elder. "Look! what about the "look'?" said the minister. "It's a mere matter of taste." "But," persisted the elder, "there's something even in the look o' a thing. Now, when ye're gi'ein' the benediction, ye haud up your hands so" — and the elder-imitated the minister's gesture with outspreod and uplifted hands. "But suppose ye put your thoomb to yer nose, and spread o-at your hands tandem fashion in front — this way — wad there no be a quid deal in the 'look' o' that?"
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Otago Witness, Issue 2426, 12 September 1900, Page 70
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186All the Difference. Otago Witness, Issue 2426, 12 September 1900, Page 70
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