Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1919 — A CAMOFLEUR. [ARTICLE]

A CAMOFLEUR.

A good s/ory to told by the deaa of Okrlialo. It concerns a dugymsra who, taking occasional duty fOT f friend in one of the moorland ehnrehao in a remote corner of Cumberland, was one day greatly scandalised on observing the old verger, who had been collecting the offertory, quietly abstract a half-crown before presenting the plate at the altar rails. After the services be called the old man into the vestry and told him* with emotion, that his crime had been discovered. The verger looked puszled. Then a sudden light dawned on him. “Why, sir, you don’t mean that ould half-crown of mine I Why, Tvo led off with he this last fifteen year.” —Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.