SOME PAROCHIAL STORIES.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Spa, —Perhaps the following Parochial Stories may amuse your readers. A small boy I was interested in had com mitted depredations and covered his childish theft with ingenious untruths. Prior to chastisement I was investigating the matter. A shocked parishioner remarked, " I think it all comes of not teaching the children the commandments nowadays—" Thou shalt not steal " and " Thou shalt not commit adultery." I said I did not see how the latter applied to the present case. " Oh, yes," she said, " it does, to adulterate is untruth and it is the same thing."
There was an outbreak of whooping cough in this village and my gardener's children got it. A neighbour advised
fried mouse as the best cure ; she was using it with her children and they were doing well. She must have cooked her savoury very daintily ; the children did not know what they were enjoying but they liked it and demanded more !' The smell of the fried mice must have been very beneficial to the neighbourhood, for the children who partook and those who didnot all recovered. We had no deaths f—I am, Sir, &c..
Hartwell, Wroxham. AGNES GARDNER KING.
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