HIS ACCENT SATED HIM.
Here is a good story of the days when the century was young. There was a dinner party at a fashionable London mansion, at which amongst the guests were a general and a bishop, the latter a Yorkshire divine who had just been translated, and was until then scarcely known in London society. The general, aa was his wont, had been telling fire-eating stories of which he was the alleged hero, and at length had capped his series by a tale of battle which, as they say in these days, " fairly earned him the kettle." The guests, however, duly applauded the story, with the exception of the bishop, who smiled a sweet smile and shook his head with a slight but significant movement. " You appear to doubt my word, my lord," cried the general, fiercely turning on the prelate. " But there is no mistake about it ; for, as I said, I was at the battle myself." The bishop, still smiling, softly replied : " Your assurance, general, is quite sufficient; and I, of course, accept your story as being perfectly true. But yet, you know, with my wretched provincial accent, I shall not dare to repeat it. I shall not, indeed !"
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1217, 27 January 1886, Page 6
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203HIS ACCENT SATED HIM. Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1217, 27 January 1886, Page 6
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