Someone handed me a note at the door of the church building a few Sundays ago. Here is what it said:

Absolute knowledge I have none,
But my aunt's washer woman's sister's son
Heard a policeman on his beat
Say to a laborer on the street
That he had a letter just last week
Written in finest classical Greek,
From a Chinese coolie in Timbuktu
Who said the Negroes in Cuba knew of a man in a Texas town
Who got it straight from a circus clown,
That a man in the Klondike heard the news
From a gang of South American Jews,
About somebody in Borneo
Who heard a man claim to know of a well-digger named Jake,
Whose mother-in-law will undertake to prove
That her seventh husband's sister's niece
Had stated in a printed piece
That she had a son who has a friend
Who knows when the world is going to end.

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