Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1900 — A Parson's Sun. [ARTICLE]

A Parson's Sun.

A writer in the Cornhill Magazine credits the late Canon Bingham with the following bit of wit: He was driving one day with other clergy to a clerical meeting, when the conversation turned upon the meaning of the two places they were nearing— Wool arid Warebam, In the county of Dorset. “How do you account for the origin of these names, Canon Bingham?” asked one'of the party. “Don’t you know this is a sheep county,” replied the canon, “and at Wool you wool the sheep and at Warebam you wear ’em?”