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al injunction, 1 suppose, 'I was a stranger and ye took me 

 in.' " (Laughter). 



1 never heard of a minister who was a pomologist save 

 in one case, and a memorandum of that fact is preserved to 

 the world by the existence of an experience which he 



related. It was said of Father of Torrington, 



that he had a peach orchard, and although it was a 

 good, nice town, and the people of Torrington as good as they 

 are generally, it is related that he had lost a great many 

 peaches at night as the crop was ripening. He had reason 

 to strongly suspect that some of the members of his parish 

 had something to do with it. He went into the Sunday 

 School one Sunday, and w^as called upon to make some re- 

 marks. He stood up and he said that he had had a dream. 

 He said, "I dreamt that I was in Heaven, and there, boys, I 

 saw the most magnificent peach orchard I ever dreamed of. 

 Splendid great ripe peaches hanging on the boughs. I said 

 to the people in that country, 'How in the world do you keep 

 those peaches? Can. you keep them?' Yes, they did. 'Well,' 

 I said, T cannot keep mine. How do you save them? I 

 should think the boys would steal them.' 'The boys steal 

 them,' they said. 'Where are you from?'". And he had 

 to tell them that he was from Torrington. (Laughter). 



I feel myself somewhat embarrassed in attempting to 

 talk to you from the fact that I have never been a farmer, 

 and know comparatively little of fruit growing. In my 

 younger days 1 had to rake hay after the cart when I wanted 

 to be fishing, and I think possibly that bred within me a pre- 

 judice which 1 have not shaken off. I had a classmate who 

 suffered somewhat in the same way in his early days, and 

 who finally came to the point where he wanted to buy a 

 house. He went to a real estate agent, and he said, "I want 

 you to find me a house that will suit me. I have great diffi- 

 culty in getting one that will satisfy me." "Why, how is 

 that?" said the agent. "Well," he said to him, "I want a 

 house that has absolutely no vegetation whatever on i t > 



