On a sweltering Sabbath in a little , church up country, tie perspiring minister, instead of preaching a long sermon, called tihe attention of th© congregation to the figures on the thermometer. • "Just, study those figures," he said. "It ain't half as hot here as you'll find it hereafter if you don'fc mend your trays." Tli© drawing-room tenor had been asked to favour the company with a song, and responded with " Happy Be Thy Dreams," in which the singer's amtipathy to the letter "h' was painfully manifest. "I cay, young man," said a blunt elderly friend after the singer !had finished, "you dlidn't sound a - single h, and the song is full of them." " I beg your pardlon, sir," replied the young mian, with freezing dignity, "you are mistaken ; it dtoasa'fc gp> any 'aghier than G. s -
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7329, 15 February 1902, Page 1
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