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It seems that a visitor to the
town had decided to go to church, and had gone into a pew with a
beautifully-upholstered cushion. He had hardly been there two
minutes when a couple came in and sat down in the same pew. They
looked coldly at him, and then at each other. The man drew out a
gold pencil and wrote something on a small slip of paper which he
passed along to the visitor without so much as a word. When the
visitor unfolded it he read: " You are sitting in our seat."
But he merely raised his eye- brows, wrote something beneath, and
passed the slip of paper back, with a smile. You can imagine the
surprise when the paper was unfolded and the couple read his reply.
The visitor had written: " And a jolly good seat it is, too!"
The best part of the story is that they just couldn't help smiling
back after that.
From "The Friendship Book of Francis Gay", Friday, July 20th, 1962
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