Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1884 — What He Said. [ARTICLE]

What He Said.

They tell strange stories of English clergymen of the olden tim& There was a certain Dr. Farmer, an Oxford don, who had a country living near the university, which he was accustomed to serve with great punctuality. He a man of very unclerical demeanor, and one day in a barber shop he was reminded of the fact in a ludicrous manner. “Well, what news?” said the clergyman to the barber, as he took his seat in the chair. “I saw Tom, yesterday,” was the artist’s reply, “and he made such a bad remark about you!” “What was it?” asked Farmer. “Indeed, sir, I could not tell you; it was too bad to repeat.” The clergyman insisted on knowing, and at length the barber, with a great show of reluctance, replied: "Why, sir, he said you wasn’t fit to carry meat to a bear.” “And what did you say ?” asked the Doctor. “I said, sir,” replied the barber, with enthusiastic loyalty, “that you was!”