Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1911 — The Boy and the Bishop. [ARTICLE]

The Boy and the Bishop.

A pompous Bishop of Oxford was once stopped on a London street by a ragged urchin, who asked: "The time o’ day, please your lordship." | With considerable difficulty the, portly bishop extracted his timepiece. "It is exactly half-past 5, my UUL” . "Well,” said the boy, setting hie feet for a good start "at ’aU-past f you go to ’ell.” and be was off llfes a flash. The bishop, flushed and furious, his watch danglng from its chain, floundered after him. Just as he rounded, the corner he ran Into the arms of the venerable Bishop of London. "Oxford! Oxford!" remonstrated the surprised dignitary, "why this unseemly haste?" Puffing, blowing. Spluttering, the outraged bishop gasped out: "That young ragamuffin—l told him It was half past I. He—or—told me to go to h —l at half-past «" "Yes, yes." said the Bishop of LOOdon, %R* the suspicion of twinkle In his Unity old eyes, "hut why-sash haste? You’ve got almost an hour." —Philadelphia Record, wl