He threatened the minister,--"Sir, baeby (maybe) I'll come farther;" meaning to intimate that perhaps he would, if much provoked, come into the pulpit altogether.

This, indeed, actually took place on another occasion, and the tenure of the ministerial position was justified by an argument of a most amusing nature.

The circumstance, I am assured, happened in a parish in the north.

The clergyman, on coming into church, found the pulpit occupied by the parish natural.

The authorities had been unable to remove him without more violence than was seemly, and therefore waited for the minister to dispossess Tam of the place he had assumed.