Then he asked them for a song.

"Oh of course," was the answer, and they sang in unison "The Carrion Crow," with full chorus and imitations.
Besides taking care of the sick, for which he was admirably fitted by nature, Brother Hecker made himself generally useful about the house.
He spent much time working among the brothers in the kitchen, and the writer has heard him say that for nearly the whole of his stay in Wittem he baked the bread of the entire community.

He also carried in the fuel for the house, using a crate or hod hoisted on his back.
In August, 1848, Brother Walworth was ordained priest, and it was decided that he and Brother Hecker, together with two young Belgian priests, Fathers Teunis and Lefevre, should proceed to England, the Redemptorists having been recently introduced there.

As the cassock is not worn in the streets in England they were sent from Wittem to Liege and there equipped with clerical suits, the tailor being cautioned not to be too ecclesiastical in the cut of the garments.

He produced a ridiculous compromise between a fashionable frock-coat and a cassock, the waist being high and tight and the tails full and flowing, and flopping about the young clerics' heels.