Not at CHfECS.-" What keeps our friend farmer B- away from us?" was the anxious question proposed by a vigilant minister to his clerk. " I have not seen him amongst us," continued he, •* these three weeks. I hope it is not Socianism that keeps him away." "No, your honour," replied the clerk ; "it is something worse than that." "Worse than Sociansm ? God forbid it should be Deism !" " &o> your honour; it is something worse.,than that.'' "Worse than Deism ? Good heavens! I trnst it is not Atheism ?" " No, your honor; it is something worse than that." " Worse than Atheism? Impossible!—nothing can be worse than Atheism !" "Yes it"» your honour; it is Rheumatism !" Next to music, nothing so powerfully tends to soothe the savage breast as to pee the young man who parts his hair in the middle shoreing a baby-wagon on Sunday.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1887, 20 January 1875, Page 2
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