On all subjects--political, social and religious--he takes the smooth side.

He is a minister, and preached a course of fifty-one sermons on heaven in one year, saying that he would preach on the last and fifty-second Sunday concerning a place of quite opposite character; but the audience assembling on that day, in August, he rose and said that it was too hot to preach, and so dismissed them immediately with a benediction.

At the tea-table I never could persuade him to take any currant-jelly, for he always preferred strawberry-jam.

He rejects acidity.
We generally place opposite him at the tea-table Mr.Givemfits.He is the very antipodes of Dr.Butterfield; and when the two talk, you get both sides of a subject.

I have to laugh to hear them talk; and my little girl, at the controversial collisions, gets into such hysterics that we have to send her with her mouth full into the next room, to be pounded on the back to stop her from choking.