21 NOVEMBER 1896, Page 30

UNCONSCIOUS PERVERSIONS.

[To THE EDITOR OP THZ " SPECTATOR.'']

SIR,—I think the following story is worthy of being recorded :—An illiterate person, after hearing her son preach for the first time, remarked to a friend : " I always did say that our Joe wouldn't be a syphon."—I am, Sir, &c.,

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