1 SEPTEMBER 1923, Page 14

SOME PAROCHIAL STORIES.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Some four or five years ago a curate, who had been stationed for some time in a parish in the North of England, on leaving, was calling on his parishioners to bid them adieu. One inquired of him as to his probable successor. The answer was : " I don't think this is yet decided, but I hear that it is likely to be a very brilliant young man from Cambridge." Reply : " Hoots ! we dinna want any brilliant young men here.

We wants men like you."—I am, Sir, &c., V. A. IV.