28 MARCH 1896, Page 16

BULLS."

[To THE EDITOR CP THE "SPECTATOR.")

Sin,—An Irish curate, preaching some years ago in a suburban church on the subject of the Prodigal Son, wishing to impress upon the congregation the extent of the father's love, proceeded to explain that lie "killed for him the fatted calf that he had kept for years and years."—! am, Sir, Sce., F. L.