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X410 Jokes on parsons
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- Parson put to flight during his sermon · X411 entry
- Tame bear tied to church bells. Rings alarm · X412 entry
- One-eyed parson in dimly lighted church joins the wrong couples. Marries the old man to the girl and the old woman to the boy · X413 entry
- Parson rides ox into church. He wants to show how Christ rode into Jerusalem. Sexton sticks ox with needle · X414 entry
- The hog in church. Locked in church all week by mistake. When the congregation comes, the hog runs between the parson's legs and carries him out · X415 entry
- Parson preaches so that half the congregation weeps and half laughs. Has clothes torn in the back. Those that see this laugh. He wins the wager · X416 entry
- Parson smears his hand with butter. Rascals have spread butter on the altarbread. The parson preaches, "What is the life of man?" and therewith brings his hand down on the altar-bread: "Pure butter!" · X417 entry
- Parson is to let a dove fly in the church. It dies in his pocket · X418 entry
- At the blessing of the grave the parson's ox breaks loose: "Now the devil has him." · X421 entry
- The corpse with his feet cut off. The coffin-maker has fitted him to the coffin. The parson: "On the last day he will arise." One of the coffin-makers: "Did I say that?" · X422 entry
- The devil in the cemetery. A sexton hears thieves in the cemetery cracking nuts and thinks it is the devil cracking bones. With the gouty parson on his back he comes upon the thieves who, thinking it is their companion with the sheep, call out, "Is he fat?" The sexton: "Fat or lean, here he is!" · X424 entry
- The parson who said there is no devil. The bear-showman lets the bear climb up the pulpit. The parson thinks the bear is the devil · X425 entry
- If his son were only a fool he would let him study to be a priest. So says the innkeeper · X426 entry
- A bad year for priests: few funerals. All but the priest rejoice over the good health of the community. He bemoans his loss of income from burials · X427 entry
- Enmity between priests and monks: chickens and eggs. Monks eat eggs and make chickens expensive; priests eat hens and make eggs high · X428 entry
- The hungry parson and the porridge-pot. Overnight at the peasant's house. The hungry parson hunts the porridge in the dark, guided by a rope the sexton has given him. Series of accidents · X431 entry
- The parson put out of countenance · X434 entry
- The boy applies the sermon. Makes a present application of the words of the parson · X435 entry
- The parson sings like a goat. The parson sees an old woman weeping and believes that she is touched by his singing. When spoken to she says that she has been reminded of her old goat which she has lost · X436 entry
- The dream: all parsons in hell. The smith tells the parson whom he has summoned that he has dreamed of going to heaven where St. Peter would not admit him before he saw a parson. There were no parsons in heaven, but all in hell · X438 entry
- Parson and sexton at mass. Parson intones instructions to the sexton (cook) as a part of the mass · X441 entry
- Whistling at mass. Bell breaks and priest's patron whistles in place of ringing the bell at mass · X442 entry
- Parson's poor horsemanship · X443 entry
- Parson refreshes himself during the sermon · X445 entry