No Matter What Color
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 dryly, whether they are black or white
sheep; but I know, if they are long here, they are pretty sure to be
fleeced.