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Another story told in the above-mentioned book illustrates the difficulties that beset some clerical visitors. Mr. Money called on an unregenerate cobbler who was ill. The minister asked the sick man if he would like his visitor to read to him. "Ah,' he said in a vcice full of scorn, 'I don't want any of that child's stuff. What I wants to know about is this here Wainewright murder.' "The visitor felt it necessary to give the man a severe calling down for his ribaldry. "To my intense astonishment," the author says, "this hard old man was utterly frightened, and said in tones of alarm, Come, none of that, now; don't you put anything on me!' He thought that I was trying to put a curse on him!"

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The following answers from examination papers, which a subscriber sends, show that words correctly pronounced by a teacher may easily become " topsyturvies" in a pupil's ear:

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"A vacuum is a large empty place

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"Trailing art beauties are small flowers." "The clouds are a heavy midst which rises up into the air."

The trailing arbutus has a beautiful order."

"Coil [the question was on coal] is made from a substance something like rope."

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