Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — Possible. [ARTICLE]

Possible.

A popular English Nonconformist minister was staying with a family in Glasgow while on a visit to that cjtf, whither ho had gone on a deputation from the Wesleyan Missionary Society. At dcsseri, when iuvited to take some fine fruit which he declined, he mentioned to the family a curious circumstance concerning himself—he had never In his life tasted an apple, pear, grape, or any other kind of green fruit. This fact caused considerable amazement to most of the family, but a cousin who was present—a curious' Scotchman of a most practical turn of mind—listened to the statement with great unconcern, and when the various exclamations which it had aroused, subsided, he remarked, dryly: •‘lt’s a great peetv ye hadna been in Paradise, and there miebt na hae been ony fa’. ”