The Seer

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The Rev Harland Butterley, a much appreciated Australian clerical speaker, was invited to speak at a monthly lunch meeting of the Rotary Club. Also present at the meeting was a reporter from the local newspaper, who enjoyed as much as anyone the vicar’s light-hearted ecclesiastical anecdotes.

At the end of his speech, Butterley approached the reporter and begged him not to print too many of his tales as he wished to use them at future speaking engagements. To Butterley’s dismay, when he read the newspaper a few days later, the reporter had written, “The vicar made an excellent speech but most of the stories he told cannot be repeated here.”