The Archive · 1940

Between the Two

Jesse Lee, the famous preacher, was riding horseback between two towns when two lawyers overtook him and fell into line, one on each side, where they began to quiz him.

"Do you ever make mistakes in quoting the Scriptures?" they happened to a:

"Ah, other day I the Devil is ded the difference was teo insignificant to warrant correction."

The lawyers looked at each other. "I don't know whether he is a knave or a fool," said one.

Lee looked from one to the other. "Perhaps between the two," he replied,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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