The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1880-03-11
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4. was detained over sunday in Barns.
bury, sad on sunday mornlag ! resolved
TO 60 to church. The fret church came
10, small frame structure with a wood
en- steeple, bad the doors and windows
tightly shut, bat there wss q man slttIpg
on the front steps whiting stick, and /
said to him.
Are you connected. with this church,
Yes, be said, am the sexton.
What is II closed forY
Well, mostly on account OF Banks
babies.
Babies7
Sit down, and IN tell you about H..
You know Banks, he came TO this place
TO live few weeks ago perfect stranger
aud rented pew in this church, II
seems that Banks bad three little babies,
lriplets not MORN two months old, and
then besides these, be has twins about a
year old So nobody knew about the
Uaulust uut phuhh WhHAcu w hhNp Nhu AltT
tic darlings bsptsed, and he allowed to
Mrs. Banks that to rush the whole five
babies into church on one Sunday might
excite remark, you understand. So he
settled it that he'd have them christened
gradually, so to speak. Accordingly the
next Sunday be fetched little Jimmy, one
OF the atriplets, aud all went of well
enough. On the following Sunday no
came a promenadin' up the aisle With
George Washington, another triplet, and
DR.. Binus, our preacher, be fixed him up
all right, People thought II was queer,
but when on the next Sunday morniif
Banks and bis wife came into church with
another baby, william Henry, crying,
some of the folks couldnthelp snickerin'.
Howsomeyer, nobody complained, and
all might have been we'll Il Banks hadn't
come along the Sunday after with Elijah
Hunsiker Banks, one of the twin.
Everybody laughed, aud Mr.. and Mrs.
Banks were furous-mad as everything,
you know; and when Elijah Huusikcr
Banks hauled of accidentally with bic
hand and bit DIR. Binns, who was boldiR
him during the ceremony, = whack In the
face, and the doctor dropped him Ia tie
water, the congregation just fairly roare1
with laughter. Mrs Banks turned red o.
fire, and looked as II she would IKE 70
murder somebody. Well, You know, wo
all thought this was the last, aud public
feeling kinder simmered down on toward
the end Of week, when who should come
sailing pp the Aisle on Sunday morning
but Mr.. and Mrs. Banks with Tecumseh
Banks, the remsinln' twinl Well, you
ought Just to have heard that congregs-
ton laugh!
1 never seen notihn' Ike II 10 Aii nv
experience.s Even DIR. Binhs had TO
stniies And the Bankscs, they we're per-
fectlyswIld with rage Anyhow, they
baptised pcGumseh; and after msetln'
somo OF the elders got jokin' about II.
One allowed that arrangements ought 70
be made TO divert Hnckeberfy creek and
run 1t down the middle aisle ofthe church
aud another made somo kind of q joke
about business being good because 80
many banks were in town; another said
that Banks would need about twelve
pews when bis family grew up, Some
body must have told Banks about II, fef
what does he do 10 revenge HIMSELF lie
sends down to Clarion county to his two
sisters TO come and bring their children
So they had couple OF babies apiece,
and as soon as they arrived Banks he
begins to bring them to church gradually,
like the others. You never seed such
meetings as them The church was
jammed full and jast rosriH'. Aud when
Banks came Sunday With The fourth and
last OF his sisters' babies, tfustrees
Il was time to interfere. Gettin'
to be a farce, You know. 30 Deacon
Smith be stepped up and said aomethin'
or other TO Banks, and Banks quieker'n a
WiuhY iaiu hOn thN beNJ $50 -
the. deacon with bis hst.-And an, !
dunno how It was, but In mlnnet there
was Banks and Deacon Smith sod
Deacon Hubbard, and Banks's sisters
baby and ms, all q rollin' and bumpin'
over The floor, hittin' aud whoopin' Ia
manner that was ridiculous to behold
And when we All come 10 and got
straigbleued out, Banks picked up the
battered baby OF bis sister and quit, and
the trustees held an Informal mceiin' and
agreed to close the church for month
so's to kinder freeze Banks out, aud now
we've shut up: bat reckon il IL no use,
for bear Banks has got bis back np aud
gone over and joined the Bapusla.
So said good day 10 the sexton, and
went Ia search Of another sanctuary.
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Tit for Tat. Mr. C---was pastor Of
Bapiis, church IN certain town in ore