I hope the ladies don't mind looking at him in his bones ?" "Thee, you can pick him up," said old Demetrius, handing a thigh-bone to momma, who shrank from the privilege.

"It ith quite dry." "It seems such a liberty," she said, "and he looks so incomplete without it.

Do put it back." "That's the way I feel," remarked Dicky, "but I don't believe he'd mind our looking at a toe-bone.

Are his toe-bones all there ?" "No," replied Demetrius, "I have count another day and he ith nine only.
Here ith a few." "It is certainly a very solemn and unusual privilege," remarked Mr.
Mafferton, as the toe-bones went round, "to touch the mortal remnant of an Early Christian." "That altogether depends," said the Senator, "upon what sort of an Early Christian he was.

Maybe he was a saint of the first water, and maybe he was a pillar of the church that ran a building society.