Easy Enough.

Fair Play, Volume I, Issue 17, 24 February 1894, Page 24

Easy Enough.

In a certain church in Ireland a young priest was detailed to preach. The occasion was his first appearance, and he took for his text, “The Feeding of the Multitude.” He said, “And they fed 10 people with 10,000 loaves of " ~0,000 fishes.” An old Irishman said, “That’s no miracle. Begorra, I could do that myself,” which the priest overheard. The next Sunday the priest announced the same text, but he had it right this time. He said, “And they fed 10,000 people on 10 loaves of bread and 10 fishes.” He waited a second, and then leaned over the pulpit and said, “And could you do that, Mr. Murphy?” Murphy replied, “And sure, your reverence, 1 could.” “And how could you do it?” said the priest. “And sure, your reverence, I could do it with what was left over from last Sunday.”