THE BISHOP AND THE BOY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 23, 25 March 1892, Page 11

THE BISHOP AND THE BOY.

The following story is told of a well-known bishop, recently deceased. The bishop was walking along a con a try road one Sunday, when he saw a small boy throwing stones. He went up to him and said— " Little boy, it is wrong to throw stones on a Sunday. Are you aware that the angels are watching you ?" " Are they," said tbe small boy, looking inquiringly into the bishop's lace with an expression of innocence on his childish countenance, " Yes, they are ; they see you every time you throw a stone." "Do they?" asked the small boy earnestly, (1 Do you trunk they saw me throwing stones at the old hen in our little back yard last Sunday ?" " Yes," replied the bishop, "I am sure they did. "Are you sure the angels saw me throwing stones at tbe old hen in our back yard ?" asked the boy reiterating the question with almost tearful earnestness, " Yes, my boy," said the bishop ; " I'm perfectly sure they saw you." " He, he, he I We haven't got any back yard," said the little boy, going off into derisive laughter, " and we haven't got any old hen I" Tae bishop walked away a sadder and a wiser man.