Thk village church badly needed repairs to the roof, and the vicar had organized various schemes to raise the necessary money. But the cash took a very long time coming in, so the vicar decided that something else would have to be done.
"My friends," he said one Sunday morning, "I regret to tell you that the money needed for the repair of Our beautiful church is not coming in as quickly as it should. We have tried to raise the necessary amount in several wa; We have tried honestly; now we are going to see what a bazaar can do."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.