The Abbe's Retort

New York, 1895

A good story is told of Mgr. Mioland, the predecessor of Cardinal Desprez in the archbishopric of Toulouse. He was passing one day through the pig market when a man shouted at him, "There are only priests and pigs in this place." The abbe, as he then was, stopped and said to the man, "My friend, are you a priest?" "Not I," returned the other. "Then," said the abbe, "you naturally are the other thing." — London Globe.