A FATHER took his small son for the first time to a service at Ripon Cathedral When the choir filed in, wearing their surplices over their cassocks, the lad turned to his father and remarked audibly: "Daddy, why do they wear their night-gowns over their dressing-gowns to come to church?" xo Doubting Thomas Tue one-ring circus was visiting a town in the hills. The folks there recognized all the instruments of the band except the slide trombone.
One old settler watched the player for quite some time, then said:
"There's a trick to it; he ain't really swal-larin' it."
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