Show REBUKED FRO FROM ki THE PULPIT pastoral admonition gently gantly conveyed should have boon enough tor for even choir chair boys the antor of a small parish in a new kew jersey tonn was known far and wide about the countryside for his quaint ways and eccentric habits hi he had bad a small choir which he augmented on special occasions with boys from the neighborhood these recruits were sometimes unruly and he be did not cot always find it ansy to hold bold them within the proper bounds in the course of a christmas morning sermon several choir boys began to eat peanuts surreptitiously and the crackling of the shells was plainly audible to the congregation at first the rector paid no attention to them but finally they got on his nerves nervel pausing after an outburst of oratory lie he fixed his gaze gam sternly upon them and thus addressed them in reproving tones boys you choir boys I 1 mean it if you must eat peanuts in church pl please pleasa easi oh please do not crunch the shells 0 then turning again to the congregation he be resumed his discourse |