Yaia Deception.
An eminent Canadian bishop lately paid a visit of inspection to a lunatic asylum near Toronto. Before introducing the bishop to one of the inmates, the physician in charge warned him not to cress or contradict the unfortunate man, but to agree with all he said. "If you humour him," said the physician, "you will doubtless find him agreeable, intelligent, and apparently sane, his only mania being that everybody is conspiring again-st him." The bishop assented, and was soon conversing amicably with the lunatic, who finally said : "I see Queen Victoria is married again." "Urn — cr — well — o'i ! of course," assnnted the bishop, after some natural hesitation, in view of the Queen's death. "So, she's married President M'Kinley, has she?" queried the lunatic next. Thits arbitrary mating of two of the world's illustrous dead was almost too much for the bishop to sanction, but £c finally managed to aequieacs with fairly good grace. "Well, who are you, anyway?" blurted out the lunatic. "I am a minister of the Gospel," replied the bishop. "Humph !" retorted th© lunatic ; "you look like a parson and you dress like a parscea, but you lie like a heathen."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2561, 6 May 1903, Page 71
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195Yaia Deception. Otago Witness, Issue 2561, 6 May 1903, Page 71
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