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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 years ago settled in Massachusetts once reproved a workman for swearing . while he was plowing a new field. "Swear!" said the man. "I guess you'd swear !" 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!" When he had gone once round the field he 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 yon never did see the like, and you saw it all the time I was plowin'." |