THE PARSON'S ERROR.

War Wit, Volume 1, Issue 7, 1 August 1941, Page 4

THE PARSON'S ERROR.

Celibate young clergyman was dominie in charge of public schoolboys, training in the city baths for a forthcoming swimming carnival, and was having difficulty in inducing his husky young charges to leave the water, seeing that the allotted time of their hiring of the baths, had expired. Perspiring with relief on his task being at last completed he was enraged to see yet another adolescent cruising : along the side of the baths. With alacrity the curate bounded to the edge and swung a strong right arm in righteous admonition, and it landed on the swimmer’s backside. Then a very lissom brunette emerged from the water and in no uncertain terms vented her opinion of 'persons who took familiarities with entirely strong young ladies.