Pastoral Parson and His 
Country Folks 
(Continued from last week) 
Games to Play. —If we have such a 
meeting at Storrs next year we shall 
probably advertise a gathering immedi- 
ately after for an exchange demonstration 
of good games to play at socials. A game 
that has been thoroughly tried out and 
found good is valuable. By far the great¬ 
er number you read about in books sim¬ 
ply do not arouse enthusiasm. The new 
county scout master showed us a new one 
the other day, and it is good. It is a 
sort of an indoor volley ball. The rules 
for this game are the same as those for 
volley ball, only instead of a net you use 
simply a rope or string put across the 
hall about seven or eight feet above the 
floor. For the ball you use one of those 
little toy balloons. It simply cannot hurt 
anything or anybody, and any number 
can play, and of any age. If you don’t 
know the volley ball rules, and the Parson 
doesn’t know them, just make any rules 
to suit the occasion. 
Supper Time. —But it’s getting to be 
supper time. All the women folks are up 
town. Ta and the little boarder boy are 
coming up the stairs asking when we are 
going to have that roast corn. So the 
Parson goes down with them, and we 
start up a fire over by the woodpile. 
There is some old pea brush there, and 
some old chunks that we could not split. 
We put some old planks around on the 
chunks for seats. We will go and get 
those two old Ford 'brake rods and cut 
off the ends and use them to stick the 
ears of corn on and roast in the fire. 
Here come all the folks, and they have 
brought some Crullers from town. So we 
will have bread and butter and a great 
pitcher of milk and these tin cups. Here 
in the ice box is about two quarts of suc¬ 
cotash left over from dinner, and we will 
warm that up. Most of the corn we put 
right in the coals with husks on. Pass 
the butter and salt. There were 13 in 
the family to supper, hut sitting around a 
campfire roasting corn is no place to 
nourish superstitions. What a good time 
we all had, and so few dishes! 
Old Home Days. —So far we have had 
two old home days in our church work. 
We were asked to supply down in the 
church where we worked for 10 years, 
and which we gave up about 15 years 
ago. Of their own accord they called it 
“Old Home Day.” The old choir that 
Mrs. Parson trained came back, for the 
church has no choir at all now, and Mrs. 
Parson led the singing and sang the solo 
as she used to. We had 135 in the con¬ 
gregation here, and such a wonderful ser¬ 
vice. The next Sunday, when the regular 
minister was back from his vacation, they 
had just six people in the church. The 
Parson believes the church was made for 
the people, while some people seem to 
think the people were made for th-i 
church. Last Sunday we had old home 
day down to the country church. We had 
a few over a hundred at both morning 
and afternoon services. This same vested 
choir came down and led the singing. It 
was wonderful. All the grounds around 
the church were filled with autos. One 
girl who used to go to the church and 
who was married there, brought her beau¬ 
tiful baby back to be baptized. The min¬ 
ister who had the church for many years 
before the Parson began going down there 
spoke in the afternoon. He is 84 years 
old. He has continuously held service 
and preached for 63 years. Such a man 
can speak from experience, rather than 
from theory or books. He says conditions 
in the country, from a moral standpoint, 
are better than they were 50 years ago. 
However, they do not seem to be as good 
to the Parson as they were before the 
war. While we never emphasize the 
inoney side of such a day, yet the offering 
is certainly a great help to us. We are 
painting up the old church, and they must 
have noticed it, and realized that paint 
costs money, for the collection amounted 
to $45. 
Blasting Rocks. —Digging and blast¬ 
ing out great rocks is far from being a 
pleasant job, and not many boys would 
take to it. But there was a boy way 
down county who was determined to get 
the rocks out of his father’s fields. Those 
he could not dig out he went to blasting 
out. Day after day, all alone on these 
rocks, he got a wonderful experience in 
blasting. He went into poultry, and while 
the hens didn’t seem to pay him, the ex¬ 
perience did. For the Parson called on 
him a while ago. He is now in the grow¬ 
ing section of a big town. He owns two 
up-to-the-minute compressed air blasting 
outfits, and breaks up great ledges and 
rocks right close up to a house without 
damage. How little he thought as he 
worked on those rocks, up on that old 
stony farm, that he would be doing such 
a big business at the same thing later on. 
Blasted Hopes. —How many hopes are 
blasted by the unexpected circumstances 
that cross our path. An effort is being 
made in this State to have a reproduction 
of a henhouse put together with bushes 
and poles and sod, with an old blind for 
a window and ventilation. The boy who 
made this had about 20 common mongrel 
birds, but he took such good care of them 
that he nearly reached standard produc¬ 
tion—360 eggs a bird. His father has 
terrible drunken brawls with his cronies 
in the kitchen, and at such times beats 
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