Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1889 — He Fooled His Bishop. [ARTICLE]

He Fooled His Bishop.

A good story is told of one of the most popular clergymen in a city not 2QO miles' irom Brooklyn. He is a pleasant, genial man, and on a certain evening in every week a few of his brother priests meet at the rectory and they spend an hour or two together in a social way. Some curmudgeon in the neighborhood, happened to get a glimpse through the blinds at a bottle and glasses and the smoke of cigars, and to hear tho sound of cheerful laughter, though it behooved him to let the bishop know what was going on. Thereupon he wrote to that distinguished functionary, of course greatly exagerating what he had seen and heard. The worthy priest got wind of this in some mysterious way and was on his guard. One night while he and his friends were enjoying themselves a ring came to the door. Going upstairs to the second floor, the good father saw a brougham of familiar build standing outside. Raising the window he looked down and discovered the bishop on the stoop. “Who’s there?" he asked. “It’s I, the bishop,” was tho reply. “Oh, go along! You’re an iinpasto said the priest. The bishop is a decent gentleman, and would never be roaming around the streets at this time of night. Be off with you at once, or I’ll call the police and have you taken in as a suspicious character.” With that he banged down the window and went back to his friends. The bishop paid no more lata visits to the rectory, and tho pleasant weekly symposium is continued. —Brooklyn Citizen.