Lot's Wife

The Reverend, Mr Monro of Westray, one day preaching on the flight of Lot from Sodom, said: “The honest man and his family were ordered out of the town, and charged not to look back; but the auld witch, Lot’s wife, looked over her shoulder, for which she was smote into a lump of salt.”

And he added, with great seriousness, “0h you people of Westray, if you had her in Westray, mony a day since you would have put her in the porridge pot.”

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