Show THE PENALTY OF MIRTH Youths Companion The Te First church of Lynn one of the oldest organizations in the country countr has ha lately celebrated its one hundred and anil soy sev anniversary Accounts of the services seres however interesting contain nothing of so exciting a nature as do those of a former celebration The occurrences marking the dedication of the Old Tun Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel nel Meeting House In are recorded by b an eyewitness e and quoted in Oba Obadiah Obadiah diah Old paths Lin After the formal ceremony of dedication a feast feat was wa Ye Yo dinner was as in ye create greate bame barne bare of ofIr Mr Ir Hoode While we were at table a rooster flew few to ye yo beam over oer our heads heads Mr r Richardson ye Newbury in ina Ina ina a a very ver loud voice and stately mien pro proclaimed pr claimed that ye house was a noble tem tern templo temple plo pie It yet et was wa but a fit ft casket for ye godly god Jewel Lin Whereupon a most lusty crow cow was wa set up by ye e old cock on ye beam bam and he flapped his wings sending ye yo dust down onto ye table Ye companie hurled buried hurle apples at ye e misbehaving misbehaving having fowle but not being of good aim am did not hit and with h a whirring noise It flew to ye ground gound as a If In disgust Mr Ir Gerrish Gernish Gerish was in a menlo merrle menie mood Not having his about abut him he endeavored endeavored endeavored ored ye e dangerous performance of gaping and laughing at ye same time In doing so he set his jaws open In such a wise that It I was beyond his power to bring them back again agin His was very greato geato and his joyful laugh was soon Boon turned ture to groaning We Ve did our utmost to stay sty the anguish angish of Mr Ir Gerrish Gernish Gerish but could make out but little till ti Mr Ir Rogers Roger who some something something thing of o anatomic did bid ye e sufferer to sit down on ye floor and taking his head between his legs turning ye e face fue upward as as a possible gave a powerful blow and sudden press which brought ye Jaws again into working order But Mr r Ger Gerrish Gerrish rish did not gape nor laugh much more neither did he lie talk much flinch for that matter mater |