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Show Well, Wasn't He Right? The minister was addressing the Sunday school. "Children, I want to talk to you for a few moments about one of the most wonderful, one of the most important organs in the whole world." he said. "What is that that throbs away, beats away, never stopping, stop-ping, never ceasing, whether you wake or sleep, night or day, week in i and week out, month in and month out, year in and year out, without any volition on your part, hidden away in the depths, as It were, unseen by you, throbbing, throbbing rhythmically all your -life long?" During this pause for oratorical effect a small voice was heard: "I know. It's the gas meter." j |