AN AWKWARD SITUATION.

LORD LYTTLETON asked a clergyman the use of his pulpit for a young

divine he had brought down with him. "I really know not," said the

parson, "how to refuse your Lordship; but if the gentleman preach better

than I, my congregation will be dissatisfied with me afterwards; and if

he preach worse, he is not fit to preach at all."

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