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Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13107, 16 May 1911, Page 4

, A Scottish parson, .remarkable- for the simple force of his pulpit style, was enlarging onri Sunday upon the text, "Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." "Yes, my friends," urged lie with solemn earnestness, "unless ye iropent yo shall as surely perish," deftly placing his left forefinger on the wing of a bluebottle fb that had just alighted upon tho reading desk while the parson's right hand waS uplifted; "just as surely as, m> friends, I flatten this poor %■." But boiforo the threatened Blow descended the fly got away, whereupon tho minister further "improved the occasion" with ready wit, exclaiming, "There's a chance for ye yet, my friends."