Drift: I have known the Fish story since it was adapted as a sketch for a patrol-evening at a summer camp of a Jewish youth organisation I belonged to way back in the long·since day -- about 1946, I reckon. The priest in scene one sprinkles the Jew with Holy Water & sez 3 times, "A Jew thou wert, a Catholic thou art". When the priest calls in scene two and finds him eating a nice big juicy steak a few Fridays later & reprimands him, he sez, "That's OK Father -- I did just like you did to me: I sprinkled it three times and said 'A steak thou wert, a herring thou art'..."

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