Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1910 — Racy Metaphor. [ARTICLE]

Racy Metaphor.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is a great example of a ready wit, accordbag to the Pathfinder. He was going with a number of clergymen in to a luncheon, after some ecclesiastical function one day, when some dignitary observed: “Now to put a bridle on our appetites!” Quick as lightning the archbishop retorted, “Say, rather, now to pnt a bit between our teeth.” ’