The first is an annual fixed stipend of four shillings for each household or family.

"Sometimes," said Father Walker, "but rarely, the better-off families give more than this; and not unfrequently the poorer families fail to give anything under this head." The second is a fixed stipend of one pound upon the occasion of a marriage.

"Sometimes, but not often, this sum is exceeded by generous and prosperous parishioners." The third is a standard stipend of two shillings for a baptism.

"This also suffers, but on rare occasions," said the good priest, "a favourable exception.

I mention the exceptions as well as the rules," said the good Father, "in order to make grateful allusion to the donors." The fourth and last consists of the offerings at interments.