JUST HAD ONE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 933, 23 January 1908, Page 22

JUST HAD ONE.

Presiding at the 16'h annual dinner of the Harrow Division Victuallers’ and Beersellers’ Trade Protection Society at the Holborn Restaurant, Mr Sydney F. Hackway told a story of a bishop who, after a long journey to conduct a service in a distant village, was asked, by the local squire i fhe would like a whisky and soda to keep, out the cold. “No,” replied the bishop emphatically, * ‘ for three reasons, no. First, because lam chairman this year of the local Church of England Temperance Society; secondly, because I am just going to enter a church ; and thirdly, because —I have just had one.”