Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1911 — Prayers for Lucy Grey. [ARTICLE]

Prayers for Lucy Grey.

The following is referred, respectively and systematically, to believers In the “divine origin of betting.” An unsophisticated curate went to a Yorkshire parish where horses were not only bred, but raced. - He was asked to invite the prayers of the congregation for Lucy Grey. He did so. Fox three Sundays they prayed for Lucy Grey. On the fourth the clerk told the curate he need not do it any more “Why,’’ said the curate, “is she dead?’ “No,” replied the clerk, “ehe’s won the steeplechase.” The curate becam* a power in the parish.