Year: 1879


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DApbury News


Mr.. and Mrs Pryden took their little
b. ) to church Sunday. 1t was his first
day in pants and his first time in church.
For the flst half of the service he was
fully absorbed in the things about him
and the novelty OF the situation. After
that his mind turned in upon himself
and he began TO pay exclusive attention
to his own wants, and Nj and Mrs.
PrydeD, from an exultant feeling of
pride, gradually slipped down an inclined
plane of anxiety, which emptied into an
abyss of despair. The number of posi-
tiOns the youth got into and the wants
he manifested would seem incredulous
were they not actually witnessed by a
full score of respectable people. AS soon
AS he took in q realizing sense of his own
identity, Master Pryden began to COM
prehend and respond to the demands of
his nature. He got up on his knees on





twisted back again to the front, and was
only saved from falling to the floor by
the alertness OF his pa. The floor being
thus suggested to him he got down on
it. Then he got up on the seat again.
From this he wanted to change to a
position between his pa and ms. He
was accommodated. After resting there
for twenty seconds, he changed to the
other side of his pa Thence he moved
to his pas lap. From there he went to
the other side of his ma.


This was evidently a mistake, for he
Immediately expressed wish to get
back to the other side of his pa, and on
their attempting to lift him there he
kicked and cried, and was only siIenced
by being allowed to walk the distance,
which be did at once. The motion so
pleased him that he went straightway
back again and tried it over. Also for
the second and hiri time. Then he got
up again between his ma aud pa. Then
ne espied giIt-back book in the rack
of the next pew, and reaching ever 10
get it, came within an ace OF depc sitting
his entiIe carcass on the other side, but
was clutChed IN time by both his psren :
and hauled safely back, very red in the
face ard very indignant. Disappointed
IN his venture, he turned his attention
10 the rack in his own pew, and pcs essel

himself OF the books therein, which,
being taken away from him, made il
necessary that he should get them again.
These he dropped on the floor one at d
time, and smiled the guileiess smile q
/ infancy as they were picked up by hi.
embarrassed parents. Pretty well ex
nausted he now prepared tor sleep, and
rested his head upon his mothers breast
and closed his eyes. His parents sighed
Then ne slipped down on the floor, slid
ing in such a way as to leave quite a
expanse of a white goods behind Lii
pants and jacket, and to roll the coliat
of his jacket up on the back of his head


The clothing was adjusted, his ma
whispered in his ear for the iOrtieth tim
and pa sc0wIed so hard as to nearly dis
| lodge his own scalp. He saw the scOwl
and sullenly sank down on the floor
from which he had 10 be lifted by mail
force. TEen he took out the hymn-bOok
again, and WAS going to drop them a
before, when his pa interfered and 1e.
cued them. He IT sented this liberty b.
throwing back his head, which, cOmin
in sharp contact with the back OF tn
seat, wrenched from his lips a sharp Cry
"he unhappy mother endeavered to stiff
30 much of the wall as she could no
/. whisper away, while the pas face wa
full of great drops Of PersPiration,
which he himself was unconscious. Thi
wall not abating, pas knife, containin
fJuI blades, was brough! into servic
and then the cry hushed. For fu
moment he WAS absorbed in the contem
plation of this object. There was 2
carpet in the pew. TwO-thirds OF Il
congregation raised from their seats, al
Mr.. Pryden himself came almost to
perpendicular. Then the hymn "
given out and sung, and the benedict.
was pronounced, and Mr.. and NJ
. Pryden, with their heir between thel
started tOr home, Mr.. Pryden being
warm that he took off his oveTcoat az
. gave a boy ten cents to carry it hon
for him.