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as a mark in the him book. . . . And now, sir, 

 I'll say a few words about them spittoons that the 

 young ladies were agoin' to present you on New 

 Year's day. I went to three of the gentlemen 

 whose darters was most perminent in the bisness, 

 and asked 'em if they would be so good as to meet 

 me on Monday mornin' at the meeting-house, and 

 bring their darters. So they said they would. I 

 told 'em it seemed to come nat'ral to you to spit 

 off broadcast, and no spittoon smaller than the 

 pulpit would be of any use. I them told 'em I 

 hadn't yet cleaned the pulpit, but left it for them 

 to examine, just as it was arter you had operated. 

 I asked 'em to step up and look at it. On Monday 

 they came. They all looked in, and agreed they 

 would n't have believed that one minister could 

 have done it without assistance. Old Col. Pickets 

 was the last to go up; and when he came down, he 

 shook his head, and said it did n't smell Orthodox. 

 It's been proposed by some, instead of a pulpit, 

 to have a raised platform, with nothin ' round it, 

 so that every secret thing shall be brought to light. 

 Father Cleverly, who's amazin' quick for a text, 

 said, in such case you might well preach from the 

 latter part of Isaiah, 1:6. f I hid not my face 

 from shame and spitting.' " 



If such things are possible with clergymen, what 

 better can we look for in church-officers and Sun- 

 day-school teachers? One writes of a certain dea- 

 con that he has many a time seen him, in church, 

 fill his pipe and take out a match, waiting with 



