Country lady: “Could the good pastor come to my husband? He is very sick.”
Pastor: “Sadly, I don’t have time to come myself, but I’ll send my assistant.”
Lady: “Dear pastor, don’t do that, it would be a shame to have an assistant who is young and beautiful, because my husband has smallpox!”
(Tuulispää, Helsinki, 1929)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 