A Straightforward View

Charles Keene

Wood engraving

Punch (13 January 1872): 13

High Church Curate. ”And what do you think, Mr. Simpson, about a Clergyman’s Turning to the East?”

Liberal Churchwarden. ”Well, Sir. My opinion is that if a Clergyman is goodlookin’, he don’t want to Turn his Back on the Congregation!”

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