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The hotel was much frequented by jovial commercial travellers, who thought they had found a good butt for their humour in a stray clergyman who booked a room there.
Day in and day out, at table and in the lounge, he received all their jests with irritating indifference. "I wonder you stand these youngsters so well," said an older man, after a particularly foolish joke at dinnertable. "Don't you hear what they say?" *
The clergyman smiled gently round the grinning faces waiting for his reply.
"Oh, yes," he answered; "but then, you see. I am chaplain in a lunatic asylum, and so I'm used to this sort of thing!"
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 June 1915, Page 3
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