THE RETORT COURTEOUS.
Among the Presbyterian ministers who were presented to President Roosevelt recently was one who bears the burden of an overweening sense of duty,, and is wont to “ rebuke in season and out of season mostly out of season. “T regret/’ said the preacher, “to see that the Administration countenanced the use of liquor in the Governor’s palace at Havana.” “ Put I am glad to see,” said the President, deftly changing the subject, “that the General Assembly is discountenancing the use of brimstone.”
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 664, 27 November 1902, Page 22
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85THE RETORT COURTEOUS. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 664, 27 November 1902, Page 22
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