"It was put up in the seventeenth century, when the whole place was full of those old-fashioned high pews.

People were very dishonest in those days, and thieves used to come to church on purpose to pick pockets.

So they always used to keep somebody stationed up there, looking down through the holes over the congregation to see that no purses were taken during the service.

Nice state of things, wasn't it ?" "Rather! But I'd love to go up there.

I say, the verger's still at his tea.