Hard on the preacher

     "Absolutely sickening! A clergyman, and not able to stand on a chair without falling off!' A sudden, gruesome thought struck him. "Hamilton! What's it a sign of when a clergyman falls off a chair and sprains his ankle on the morning of the wedding?"
     "How do you mean, what is it a sign of?"
     "I mean, is it bad luck?"
     "For the clergyman, undoubtedly."

(from The Small Bachelor, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)