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wait longer, he filled up the empty decanter with water, and 

 scribbled a note of explanation as follows : — 



" Our Lord, when on earth, turned water into wine ; but 

 I and my daughter have turned wine into water." 



A Sporting Vicar, upon being taken to task by his 

 Bishop for his practice of driving tandem, which his Lord- 

 ship did not think becoming, the Vicar protested that he 

 could not see anything more reprehensible in his driving 

 tandem, than in his Lordship driving a carriage and pair. 

 Whereupon, the Bishop made this sage rejoinder: " That 

 many things, which in themselves are neither wrong nor 

 wicked, may, nevertheless, not be expedient." And to 

 illustrate his meaning, placed his hands together immedi- 

 ately in front of his face, and said : — •" When we pray we 

 adopt this attitude — our hands side by side like my horses 

 abreast, but " — withdrawing his right hand and placing it 

 in front of the other with fingers of both outstretched from 

 his nose : — " What would be thought if we changed the 

 position thus ? " 



When visiting his native dale for the grouse shooting, 

 the Vicar of Aysgarth requested Mr. Costobadie to preach 

 for him one Sunday. Ever ready to assist a brother cleric, 

 he replied, — "With pleasure, but you must not expect 

 " much, for you know, every jockey rides best in his own 

 "saddle, and I always preach best in my own pulpit." 



Occasionally a favourite spaniel, feeling either lonely 

 or devout would follow the Vicar into the Church at 

 Norton, and when observed, the Vicar would lean over 

 from the old "three-decker " to the Clerk and say, quite 

 audibly in the middle of the service, "John! Just take the 

 dog out 1 " Sometimes the request would be varied thus : 

 — "John! Just open — or shut — those windows; its suffo- 

 cating, or draughty," as the case might be ! 



The late Sir Arthur Grey Hazlerigg used for many 

 years to shoot with Mr. Frank Palmer, who rented the 



