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couple of friends, too, to try a bit of sport in Penn- 

 sylvania. I know the ground, and my friend has a 

 good dog." 



In very few minutes all details were settled, and 

 we parted with the understanding that he and his 

 clerical friend were to meet me at the Jersey side in 

 time for a convenient train. When we met, I was 

 rather startled, for the friend stood fully six-feet-four, 

 and the pair of 'em, in tweed, suggested a couple of 

 stately brown-stone fronts. The new parson was 

 precisely the sort of friend the other might be 

 expected to have. 



Now, until we had left the train at our destination, 

 I clean forgot what manner of man would meet us; 

 but presently, as a truly gigantic figure bore down 

 upon us, it came over me. It looked like a case of 

 six-feet-one, six-feet-three, six-feet-four, and one for 

 His Nobbs, for he stood six-feet-six. The fact that 

 our guide had taken his turn at the reading-desk, an 

 occasional whack at the pulpit, and actually was a 

 church warden at that blessed moment, didn't lessen 

 the fun any. 



" What are you giggling at ? " curtly demanded 

 my parson, and the twinkle in his blue eye was 

 irresistible. 



" I I hardly know," I stuttered. " What is this 

 outfit, anyhow, a high-church deputation, or just an 

 accident ? You know I'm the son of an arch- 

 deacon." 



" True, I'd forgotten that," he retorted. " It does 

 look a bit shoppy, and as you're an unregenerate 

 ruffian, we'll have to call you the Lay Delegate." 



The Pennsylvanian, at a reasonable hour in the 



