No Matter What Colour
An eminent Scottish divine met two of his own parishioners at the house of a lawyer, whom he considered too sharp a practitioner. The lawyer ungraciously put the question, “Doctor, these are members of your flock; may I ask, do you look upon them as white sheep or as black sheep?” “I don’t know,” answered the divine drily, “whether they are black or white sheep; but I know, if they are long here, they are pretty sure to be fleeced.”