At a dinner during the Episcopal Convention in America a young lady sitting near the Bishop of London said to him: "Bishop, I wish you could sot my mind at rest as to the similarity or Lliseimilarity between your country and :nus on one point. IJoes the butterfly because the tomato can?" Tho Bishop - laughed heartily at this vivacious sally. Not so a young Englishman of his - party, who, after dinner, sought his liost. " 1 want to know, yon know," ' said he, " about that joke of Miss 1 B '«. She asked if butter flew be- ; ?ause tomatoes could. Pray tell me 3 -.-Viol, the Doillt IS."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9322, 24 August 1908, Page 3
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