[I did not think it probable that I should have a great many more talks with our company, and therefore I was anxious to get as much as I could into every conversation.

That is the reason why you will find some odd, miscellaneous facts here, which I wished to tell at least once, as I should not have a chance to tell them habitually at our breakfast-table .-- We're very free and easy, you know; we don't read what we don't like.

Our parish is so large, one can't pretend to preach to all the pews at once.

One can't be all the time trying to do the best of one's best if a company works a steam fire-engine, the firemen needn't be straining themselves all day to squirt over the top of the flagstaff.

Let them wash some of those lower-story windows a little.