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its readers, may please to tell it and
trusts that you will often make it the
recipient of your confidences.

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[bold]R[bold]umor has it that not long ago a
divinity student was asked to
announce to his congregation that at
the close of the service there would be
a meeting of the Board, of the church
in the vestry. Perceiving a stranger
present at this meeting he approached
him and said, "Sir, I don't think you
are a member of this committee."
"Oh" replied the intruder, "excuse me,
but I understood that you called a
meeting of the bored [underlined] and I was
fearfully bored. You preached for
forty-two minutes!

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