SUBDUED THE VIRAGO

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 24, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 47.

SUBDUED THE VIRAGO.

While Spurgeon was still a boy preacher, he was warned about a certain virago, and told that she intended to give him a tongue lashing. “All right,” he replied, “but that’s a game at which two can play.” Not long after, as he passed her gate one morning, she assailed him with a flood of billingsgate.

He smiled and said: “Yes, thank you, I am quite well. I hope you are the same.”

Then came another burst of vituperation, pitched in a still higher key, to which he

replied, still smiling: “Yes, it does look rather as if it is going to rain. I think I had better be getting on.”

“Bless the man!” she exclaimed, “he’s as deaf as a post. What’s the use of storming at him?” and so her ravings ceased and were never again attempted.—Exchange.