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When I was a boy, another boy the pa'son's son along with a lot of others, asked me 'Who dragged Whom round the walls of What? and I said, 'Sam Barrett, who dragged his wife in a chair round the tower corner when she went to be churched. They laughed at me with such torrents of scorn that I went home ashamed, and couldn't sleep for shame; and I cried that night till my pillow was wet: till at last I thought to myself there and then 'They may laugh at me for my ignorance, but that was father's fault, and none o' my making, and I must bear it.
"Pa'son Mayble and I were as good friends all through it as if we'd been sworn brothers. Ay, the man's well enough; 'tis what's put in his head that spoils him, and that's why we've got to go." "There's really no believing half you hear about people nowadays." "Bless ye, my sonnies! 'tisn't the pa'son's move at all. "What! Shiner?" "Ay; and I see what the pa'son don't see.
He must be asked to read, or sing, or fiddle, or do whatever he can. If not, he will feel he is being read at, or sung to, or fiddled for, and will go off to the Magpie and Stump, instead of bringing missus and the little ones to the "pa'son's readings." Let the Penny Reading teach us the truth and how true it is that we are all "working men."
The pa'son's hair fairly stood on end when he heard the evil tune raging through the church, and thinking the choir had gone crazy he held up his hand and said: "Stop, stop, stop! Stop, stop! What's this?" But they didn't hear'n for the noise of their own playing, and the more he called the louder they played.
Newberry's serious side, Stockdale gathered that she was one of the trimmers who went to church and chapel both. 'I'll go there, said Stockdale, feeling that, in the absence of purely sectarian lodgings, he could do no better. 'She's a little particular, and won't hae gover'ment folks, or curates, or the pa'son's friends, or such like, said the lad dubiously.
Good Lord, what next! 'And I really must say again that you ought not to be in such a hurry, and wait for a few years. You might go higher than a bankrupt pa'son's girl then. 'The fact is, mother, said Stephen impatiently, 'you don't know anything about it. I shall never go higher, because I don't want to, nor should I if I lived to be a hundred.
Her mother put on a deprecating look. "Now don't you be bursting out angry! The poor man he felt so rafted after his uplifting by the pa'son's news that he went up to Rolliver's half an hour ago. He do want to get up his strength for his journey to-morrow with that load of beehives, which must be delivered, family or no.
And the next minute the corner of the clerk's eye shot again into the corner of the pa'son's, and the pa'son's back again to the clerk's. "Hee, hee!" said the clerk. "Ha, ha!" said Pa'son Toogood. "Ah, sir," says the clerk again, "this is better than crying Amen to your Ever-and-ever on a winter's morning!" "Yes, indeed, clerk!
'Jown it we've never played to a dead man afore, said Ezra Cattstock, when, having concluded the last verse, they stood reflecting for a breath or two. 'But it do seem more merciful than to go away and leave en, as they t'other fellers have done. 'Now backalong to Newton, and by the time we get overright the pa'son's 'twill be half after twelve, said the leader.
''Twas a very dark afternoon, and by the end of the sermon all you could see of the inside of the church were the pa'son's two candles alongside of him in the pulpit, and his spaking face behind 'em. The sermon being ended at last, the pa'son gie'd out the Evening Hymn.
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