A conceited young cleric once said to his bishop: “Do you not think that' I may well feel flattered that so great a crowd came to hear mo .preach? “No,” 1 was the answer, “for twice as many would come to see you hanged. Leader of Lynching Party (in Far West): “Yon got anything to say before we strings you up? ' ' , The Condemned .Man . (apologeticallv) • “If it ain’t too much trouble, I d ife to have you trim the end o’ the rope where it’s frayed. It tickles me
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2598, 4 September 1909, Page 1 (Supplement)
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