CAN THIS BE TRUE?
There had been a meeting of the Synod or something, and the platform of the railway station was afterwards thronged with parsons who were returning to their vicarages. ‘And some on ’em used very bad language, too,’ observed a porter to a poor curate, who had to travel by a later train. • No, no, my good man,’ replied the curate, ‘ you must be mistaken, what you heard was probably some expression in Latin, or Greek, or Hebrew, that you did not understand.’ ‘Well,’ said the porter, ‘all I can say is I don’t understand no Latin ; I don't understand no Hebrew ; and I don’t understand no Greek ; but he couldn’t open the door of the carriage, and what he said was “ damn,” and I understand that.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue VIII, 23 February 1895, Page 192
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130CAN THIS BE TRUE? New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue VIII, 23 February 1895, Page 192
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