THROUGH AND BY YEMMENS(MN, my FATHER)

Dear MBS,

Even though this is a remake of the short story ‘THE VERGER’ by W. Somerset Maugham it was quite enjoyable.

It is a short story about a long serving verger who is sacked by the new vicar of his church because of illiteracy.  Sadly walking the streets of London vainly looking for a comforting cigarette, the verger has an idea – to set up a business of his own of selling tobacco and sweets.  His first shop is so successful that he buys ten more in ten years, all of which are financial successes.  His bank manager, inviting him to invest his fortune, is stunned to learn that his client is illiterate.  He wonders what brilliant career he might have had if he had known how to read and write.  The erstwhile verger ironically indicates that literacy, far from helping him, would have hindered him, keeping him in a dead-end job as a modest verger.

The moral of the story:

            It is not how much you learn that counts, but rather how well you make use of the little you know,