MRS. PARKINGTON AT CHURCH.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 293, 2 April 1877, Page 4

MRS. PARKINGTON AT CHURCH.

" What d » yon think will lifciriie of yon f" said Mrs. P«rkingt«»n to Jkc, as they were going front c'hikli. The question related to the young gentleman's conduct in the church, where he had tipped OVI r the cricket, peeped over the gallery, attracting the attention of a boy in t'e pew below, by dropping a pencil tied with a string upon his head, and had drawn a hideous picture of n the snow-white eo<-ur of the beat hymn-book " Where fb> yott expect to go to I" It was a question that the youngster nevt r before had put to hint quite so closely, and he said he didn't know, but ho thought he'd like ;;o up in M >ns. Goddard's bidomv. " I'm af.ard you'll «»» down, if you (Ict't mend vmtr ways, rather titan go up. Yon have lieen acting very f>:sd in meeting," continued she, "and I declare i eordd hardly keep ftor» boxing your ears right in the midst of the letlnrgr. You didn't pay no interest, and I have lost all the thread of the sermon through your tricks." " 1 didn't t .kj your thread," said Ike, wl».» thought she alluded to the string by whie t the pencil was towered »[>.►•« the li»v, that w.n a tishlug-hue." "" Oh, 1 aaae," continued she, " what do yon act ho tifc ? the probable son for f Why don't yott try and be tike David and Deuteronomy that we ivad about, and act itt a ivpreliensiMe manner i" The appeal was tottehiti.', and Ike was sit- nt„ t inkin; of the sting that David killed ffoliath with, and wondering if he couldn't make one.