HE GOT IT.
The following colloquy is said to have taken place between the late Mr Spurgeon and a boy in his orphanage : — * Mis’r Spudgin, s’posing there was an orfin ’sylum an’ a hunnerd orfins in it, an’ all the orflns had uncles and auntses to bring ’em cakes an’ apples, ’cept one orfin wot hadn’t no one, oughtn’t somebody give that orfin sixpence ?’ * I think so, Bob,’ replied Mr Spurgeon ; • but why ?’ ‘ ’Cause I’m him,’ said Bob. The * orfin ’ got his sixpence.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XXIV, 12 June 1897, Page 772
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83HE GOT IT. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XXIV, 12 June 1897, Page 772
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