Show THOUGHT HIM A PREACHER american diplomat victim of an amusing mistake in the yosemite valley madams madame hegermann author ot of the book the sunny side of diplomatic lite life tells tella of 0 an inal incident that happened when she and her husband then danish minister to the united states were traveling in the west they were spending sunday la it the yosemite valley when immediately I 1 after aate r breakfast a man knocked at their door and with hums and haws baws said he had bad been sent to ask mr hegermann if he would read the prayers and preach a sermon in the drawing room of the hotel it being sunday and you being a minister J was a little aghast botex not exactly understanding while I 1 was shaking with laughter at the other end ot of the room and would not have interfered for worlds for tear fear of losing a word of the dialogue 1 I read the go gospel spell cried J yes sir air youre a minister aint yer yera well yes yea I 1 am but not the kind you mean the little man said condescendingly we are not particular as to sect whether youre a baptist or met methodist 10 it makes no difference as long as you will preach J had bad difficulty in explaining explaining in his best english that preaching was not a specialty of his |