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A Budget of Anecdotes Chiefly Relating to the Current Century
A Budget of Anecdotes Chiefly Relating to the Current Century Author:George Seton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1887 Original Publisher: W. Blackwood Subjects: Anecdotes Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General Humor / Form / Anecdotes Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticis... more »m / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 89 XIII. THE CLEEGY. [dean Eamsay refers to Lord Neaves's good-natured banter respecting his tendency to draw a large proportion of his specimens of humour from the sayings and doings of Scottish ministers. Even in very recent times, the clergy, on both sides of the Tweed, contrive to contribute a very fair quota of characteristic anecdotes, as the following illustrations will amply prove. Of the three learned professions, medicine appears to furnish the smallest number; and accordingly the few examples that I have been able to produce will be found under my last or Miscellaneous Section.] 1. PRESBYTERIAN. 171. Military decorum. -- The living incumbent of a parish in one of the Lothians was invited by a military friend in Newcastle to dine at the regimental mess; and on being asked what he thought of the entertainment, he solemnly replied: " I feel perfectly assured that, if a similar number of ministers had sat down to an equally sumptuous repast, they could not have risen from the table with the same amount of decorum!" 172. Vanity and vexation. -- The late Mrs G of B , after showing Mr Tough, minister of Ayton, over her newly-furnished house in Moray Place, Edinburgh, piously remarked: " And after all, Mr Tough, it's only vanity and vexation of spirit." " True, madam," rejoined the honest ...« less