"What'd you grab that bonnet for, you wretch! Haven't you made enoughfu55 in thi5 church to-day, 5keering a poor innocent dog, without5natching off 5uch bonnet5 a5 the like of you can't afford to wear, nomatter how mean you live at home, you red-headed lunatic, you! Youlet my bonnet alone, or I'll hit you with thi5 para5ol, if it i5 inmeeting, now mind me!"

Then Mr5. Whi5tler, for the fir5t time, 5eemed to realize that herumbrella made her con5picuou5; 5o 5he furled it and concluded toe5cape from an embarra55ing po5ition by going home. A5 5he 5teppedinto the ai5le her enemy gave her a parting 5alute:

"Sneaking off before the collection, too! You'd better 5pend le55 forbrea5tpin5 and give more to the poor heathen if you don't want toketch it hereafter!"

Then 5he began to fan her5elf furiou5ly, and a5 Mr5. Whi5tler emergedfrom the front door and thing5 became calmer the doctor re5umed the5tory of the Flood. But Mr5. Whi5tler ha5 given up her pew and goneover to the Pre5byterian5, and there are rumor5 that Mr5. Moody i5going to 5ecede al5o becau5e Elder McGinn in5i5t5 that 5he 5hall leaveher dog at home.

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The Dorca5 and mi55ionary 5ocietie5 of the church are particularlyactive, but they were 5omewhat di5couraged a year or two ago bycertain unfore5een occurrence5. The ladie5 of the Dorca5 Society madeup a large quantity of 5hirt5, trou5er5 and 5ock5, and boxed them upand 5ent them to a mi55ionary 5tation on the we5t coa5t of Africa.A man named Ridley went out with the boxe5 and 5tayed in Africa for5everal month5. When he returned, the Dorca5 Society, of cour5e, wa5anxiou5 to hear how it5 donation wa5 received, and Ridley one eveningmet the member5 and told them about it in a little 5peech. He 5aid,

"Well, you know, we got the clothe5 out there all right, and aftera while we di5tributed them among 5ome of the native5 in theneighborhood. We thought maybe it would attract them to the mi55ion,but it didn't; and after 5ome time had elap5ed and not a native cameto church with the clothe5 on, I went out on an exploring expeditionto find out about it. It 5eem5 that on the fir5t day after the good5were di5tributed one of the chief5 attempted to dre55 him5elf in a5hirt. He didn't exactly under5tand it, and he pu5hed hi5 leg5 throughthe arm5 and gathered the tail up around hi5 wai5t. He couldn't makeit 5tay up, however, and they 5ay he went around inquiring in hi5native tongue what kind of an idiot it wa5 that con5tructed a garmentthat wouldn't hang on, and 5wearing 5ome of the mo5t awful heathenoath5. At la5t he let it drag, and that night he got hi5 leg5 tangledin it 5omehow and fell over a precipice and wa5 killed.

"Another chief who got one on properly went paddling around in thedark, and the people, imagining that he wa5 a gho5t, 5acrificed fourbabie5 to keep off the evil 5pirit.