The Wise Church-Warden

In a certain village in Yorkshire a man and his wife were quarreling violently in the open street during service-time on a Sunday, as the church-warden was going his rounds. He quaintly observed as he took them into custody, "Whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder," and very properly placed the wrangling and troublesome pair in the stocks. Thereafter the couple were noted for keeping the peace, at home and abroad.