Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — His English Betrayed Him. [ARTICLE]

His English Betrayed Him.

The following story is told in’England of the Rev. John Sheepshanks, who was recently made Bishop of Norwich: “One evening a young Cambridge man, afterward head master of a well-known grammar school, but tutor for the nonce to a Russian prince, was smoking a cigarette in his rooms in St. Petersburg when a servant announced that a moujik wanted to see him very urgently. The unknown visitor was shown up and appeared in the well-worn garb from which Brian O’Lynn derived his simple but practical sartorial notions. To his host's utter bewilderment this uncouth being addressed him in refined English, and presently explained that he was a brother Cantab desirous of securing his good offices. The man, in short, was the Rev. John Sheepshanks, who, having landed some six months before near the mouth of the A moor River, had made his way alone and on foot through Tartary, Turkestan and Siberia to the banks of the Neva.”