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Around The Tea-Table

CHAPTER XIV
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In the name of all the best interests of the church, I indict one-half the sextons.
THE GOOD SEXTON.
He is the minister's blessing, the church's joy, a harbinger of the millennium.

People come to church to have him help them up the aisle.

He wears slippers.

He stands or sits at the end of the church during an impressive discourse, and feels that, though he did not furnish the ideas, he at least furnished the wind necessary in preaching it.

He has a quick nostril to detect unconsecrated odors, and puts the man who eats garlic on the back seat in the corner.


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