Show miss nasli the scholar should know his textbooks else he may have the mortification of being outmatched in his own specialty by a layman as in this story from an exchange A child was brought to a yorkshire vicar for baptism As he was told that the name was to be noah he naturally referred to the infant as he in tho course of ohp service soon he felt his surplice pulled by one of the women who whispered to him that it was a lass but noah is not a girls name eaid the parson yes it is spoke up the childs father an adjournment was made to the vestry to settle the point the father said that whenever he had a child to be named he opened the bible and chose the first name of the proper sex that met his eye the clergyman insisted that in the present case a mistake had been made whereupon the father opened the bible at numbers 38 and read the names of the daughters of were noah etc there was no more to be said |