Best Bed

A Scottish preacher being sent to officiate one Sunday at a country parish, was accommodated at night in the
manse, in a very diminutive closet, instead of the usual “best bed” appropriated to strangers.

“Is this the bedroom?” he said when he saw it, starting back in amazement.
“Yes, sir,” responded the lady of the house, who had escorted him upstairs “ this is the prophet’s chamber.”

“It must be for the minor prophets, then.”

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