Show I Pious Smiles I is easy enough to tell how the children of other people should be brought up and the childless clergyman is generally an expert in giving adyice to mothers The reason there has not been any frantic rush to secure copies of the revised re-vised edition it is said is that the old fashioned book makes a good enough centertable ornament for the majority of folks folksA A member of the choir at St Georges chapel Windsor castle hasl > een singing there for seventy years Think of the spiteful things this chorister must have heard and the heartburnincs he must have aided in kindling I cant account for the small attend remarked ance at church on Sundays clurch Parson Jones Neither can I replied Fogg with his customary frankness I went a few Sundays ago and I couldnt see anything to attract the small audience I saw there No said the Vermont deacon I 10 approve of lions racin and when another member of the church becomes so godless as to try to pass me on the road comin home from meetin I feel it my duty to the church to let out a leetle him from put on the reins just to keep tin his trust in earthly things Yes thundered the preacher from tmnderecl the pulpit the hairs of our head are all numbered tI wonder where the back numbers go to said the baldheaded his shin man in the front pew rubbing ing scalp Do as I doget a reprint I said the man behind him and he took off t his wig and fanned the Hies away with it |