Stoning Stephen — 542
The Buffalo Democracy narrates this story of one of the miniature men, vulgarly called children:—“A teacher in a Sunday-school in R—— was examining a class of little boys from a Scripture catechism. The first question was, ‘Who stoned Stephen?’—Answer: ‘The Jews.’—Second question: ‘Where did they stone him?’—‘Beyond the limits of the city.’—The third question: ‘Why did they take him beyond the limits of the city?’ was not in the book, and proved a poser to the whole class; it passed from head to foot without an answer being attempted. At length a little fellow who had been scratching his head all the while looked up, and said, ‘Well, I don’t know, unless it was to get a fair fling at him!’”