Oh, since you answered here! You will remmeber this bit. I read this at twelve adn laughed so hard my mom had to read teh passage since I couldn't articulate it for weeks without breaking down.
Miss Cornelia on her first visit to Anne, discussing the current Presbyterian minister:
"...I'll never forget the first sermon he preached after he came. It was on the subject of everyone doing what they were best fitted for--a very good subject, of course; but such illustrations as he used! He said, 'If you had a cow and an apple tree, and if you tied the apple tree to your stable and planted the cow in your orchard, with her legs up, how much milk would you get from the apple tree, or how many apples would you get from the cow?'"
*still giggling*
And Cornelia's final denouncement:
"The long and short of it is, I consider him a reverend jackass."
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Miss Cornelia on her first visit to Anne, discussing the current Presbyterian minister:
"...I'll never forget the first sermon he preached after he came. It was on the subject of everyone doing what they were best fitted for--a very good subject, of course; but such illustrations as he used! He said, 'If you had a cow and an apple tree, and if you tied the apple tree to your stable and planted the cow in your orchard, with her legs up, how much milk would you get from the apple tree, or how many apples would you get from the cow?'"
*still giggling*
And Cornelia's final denouncement:
"The long and short of it is, I consider him a reverend jackass."
I love her. God.