Evening journal., 1900-05-19

mission, and the last of all those with
whom | shook hands was this dear old
lady.
" I suppose l shall have to say good
bye, she said. The Lord has been
with us. am good old Methodist.
bishop, and you are an EpiscCpalian,
but l must say there is a good deal Of
the Methodist in you. Did you ever
hear that good old Methodist hymn,
There's no goodbye in Heaven'?'
regretted that | had not, so she tuned
up and gave me that hymn, and she
kept me so long that I began to think
there was no goodbye on earth"
when / was in England about four
years ago, attended dinner at which
the Duke of Newcastle was present.
The rector of the parish wanted new
parish house. He came to me. spoke
of the liberality Of the duke and inn
portuned me to put in a word for his
parish house when making a speech
commendatory Of his grace" said
Bishop Talbot
"'Is the Duke Of Newcastle here2'
asked in surprise.
Yes. my lord, said the rector. (you
know they call bishops lords over
thre.)
"'Where is hep I asked.
"He pointed him out.
What That little fellow down
there?' ] said, and he replied In the
affirmative.
Well, that's the first duke l ever
saw, / said. However l promised to
put in a word for his parish house.
In my speech / alluded TO the fact
that on one occasion the duke passed
through my cathedral town. At that
time it was the only cathedral in the
world that had no roof on it. | told
the duke that / felt sure that, had he
known Of that condition, with his re-
markable faculty for doing the right
thing alt the right time he would have
put roof on that cathedral / wish
you could have seen the face OF the
rector as it heightened under my talk.
He thought l was working the duke
for my cathedral instead Of his parish
house. But l reassured him when ]
said
We will now pass around the pa
per for subscriptions for this parish
house, and l am sure that his grace
viii make up the balance needed and
not subscribed
After the dinner the Duke OF New
castle said to me- I want TO thank
your loFdship. Will you not come up
and spend a week with me at the
castle? l said Where's that, duke?
They have a habit in England Of tell
\ ing a guest when to come and when tC
Il go and so l went. II was a magnih-
cent country seat.
Next morning he said he had an ap-
pOintment with his agent which would
keep him for several hours, and asked
me what | would like to do.
I Ito tell the truth, your grace, IL
II like to shoot some OF your rabbits
/ He looked surprised.
"'Can your lordship handle a gun? ?
3 he inquired. Those rabbits are yer,
Wild
? 1--WE got within range Of hundred
Of them when driving. / said.
3 90, I know his grace said, but W.
were in G carriage. If we had been OF
r foot we wouldn't have got anywhere
{ near them. They are very wild, bu
! l will call up the gamekeeper
John the bishop would like to xii
rabbit, he said to that functionary.
5 Them rabbits is pooty wild, sur
and I'm afraid they won't stop whil'
, your lordshop shoots. said John.
q "Tn America we never wait for then
to stop: we shoot them on the jump
, l replied.
/ "'If your lordship can hit one Will
he is on the jump we maybe can &c
e him. the gamekeeper said reassur
e lingly.'
/ 80 they fixed me up with gun an
we went out. By noon we had forty
two rabbits. remember that Johl
S said:
Your lordship. these are gettin
Y putty heavy 1 would like TO take ther
r back OF the copse.'
r while he was gone I bagged tw
1 more When l got back to the castl
@ his grace said he had been intending
e adopt the Australian plan of doin
, away with the rabbits by poison, fc
e they were getting too numerous, but