The Bjshop and the Drummer.
The Right Rev. Thomas Underwood Dudley, of Kentucky, one of the eminent bishops in the Episcopal Church, enjoys a good story as well as if he did not wear the cloth. He tells this one on himself : A number of years ago he was going by train to one of the smaller towns of Jus diocese to hold services. He was enjoying a cigar in the smoker, and upon the seat facing him was a very large vali«e, containing his clerical vestments. A drummer sitting back of him, noticing his jaunty travelling cap, leaned forward and inquired : "Travelling man, eh?" "Yes," answered: the bishop. "What house d'ye represent?" J'The biggest house- in the world." ""Shillito's?" (the largest house in Cincinnati) asked the drummer. "Bigger than that." > "Marshall Field?" , "Bigger tha-i that." ■>. "A. T. Stewart's?" . -. is "Bigger yet." "Well, what hou»e is it? Tbo°e are the best I know." "I represent, sir," said the bishop, impressively, "the house of God." The salesman gave a gasp, then glancing at the mammoth valise, exclaimed: "Well, all I've got to say is, you carry a pretty full line of samples."
The Bjshop and the Drummer.
Otago Witness, Issue 2541, 26 November 1902, Page 72
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