QUICK-WITTED PARSONS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LII, Issue 187, 11 September 1909, Page 6

QUICK-WITTED PARSONS.

1)i. IV S. Henson once delivered hiF 1 (lure on "Fools." In introducing 'inn. Bishop Vincent said: — "Ladies ; n-l gentlemen, we are now to listen to a lecture on 'Fools,' by one" (the audience broke into a roar of laughter, .uid aftei it had died away. Bishop Vince.it added) "of the most brilliant men in the countiy." Dr. Henson rose, and wtli a genial smile said, "Ladies and I am not so great a fool .us Bishop Vincent" — (another roar of laughter, sifter which the speaker ;>dd< d) — "would have you believe."

Tliere was a poor man up at Cairns, Who possessed but a wife and twelve bairns, Whose wheezing and sneezing was so far from pleasing, That it gave him pome awful bad turns. ' In the midst of his terriblo plight, 'Midst the coughing and barking at night, He found a friend sure in Woods' Peppermint Cure, That soon put his family all right. 26

For Chronic Chest Complaint* Wooda' Great Peppermint Care, It fld »nJ 2s Gd.