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Show AT LEAST GUILTY OF LYING Truly Clergyman Had Refrained From Blasphemy, but He Had Sinned In Another Direction, A clergyman who yenrs ago settled in Massachusetts once reproved a workman for swearing while he was plowing a new field. "Swear I" said the num. "I guess you'd sweur!" Whereupon the preacher took the plow and hurried after It, Indignantly denying the charge. Then, as the field became more impassable, he began be-gan panting: "I never saw the like! I never saw the like I" When he had gone once round the field lie stopped, breathless, and added: "There, you see I didn't find It necessary neces-sary to swear." "No," said the other, "but you've told more'n 50 lies. You said you never did see the like, and you saw It all the time I was plowln'." |