UNCONSCIOUS PERVERSIONS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—Readers of the Spectator must have come in contact with many unconscious perversions, and with the ludicrous effect produced thereby. The old parish clerk was a sure perverter when an opening was given. A rector told his clerk to announce that daring the next six weeks—probably during the Lenten season—the vicar of — and himself -would preach " alternately " on Sunday mornings. The clerk's perversion took the form of an announcement that -these rev, gentlemen would preach "to all eternity." A vicar of Goostrey, in Cheshire, said to his clerk :—" Give out that there will be no service here on Sunday afternoon next, as I shall be officiating at Peover." The moment came, and 'the announcement concluded, "as the vicar will be a-fishing at Peover." This notice, given early in the century, had little -of the ludicrous about it for the congregation generally, as the trout in Peover Brook possessed as great a reputation sixty or seventy years ago as they have at this day.—I am,
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