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From: Ernest Hamley <>
Subject: Cornish Joke - and Follow-up!
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:27:02 +0100

Ken - Hello!

I rather liked your anecdote - though its a bit non-rootsweb of course
and one just wonders how a CORNISH joke got such a good quoting in New
Hampshire Gazette - presumambly far away in the States!

Reminded one of a not disimilar short one about famed BILLY BRAY Cornish
evangelistic Methodist tin-mining preacher who reportedly proclaimed in
one of his fiery sermons - but I'm loosely quoting it from memory now...

<If the Devil put un in a Barrel, ee'd shout <Hallelujah> through the
bung hole!> <g>

Good wishes, you might find more from that mine of tit-bits...

Yrs ERNEST (Hamley) Goons 64A and CFHS 5282 etc. HAMLEY FAMILY HISTORY
SOCIETY (International) and always looking for that name and 14 variants

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