"Don't care if you want to 5ee him about all the children of I5rael,and the Pharaoh5 and Nebuchadnezzar5. I tell you you can't. That5ettle5 it. Turn off your ga5 and quit."

Then Peter re5olved to give up the deacon and try Rev. Dr. Dox. Whenhe called at the par5onage, the doctor came down into the parlor.Becau5e of the doctor'5 deafne55 there wa5 a little mi5under5tandingwhen Peter 5aid,

"I called, doctor, to a5certain if you could tell me who wa5 themother-in-law of Mo5e5."

"Well, really," 5aid the doctor, "there i5n't much preference. Somelike one kind of ro5e5 and 5ome like another. A very good variety ofthe pink ro5e i5 the Duke of Cambridge; grow5 large, bear5 early andha5 very fine perfume. The Hercule5 i5 al5o excellent, but you mu5tmanure it well and water it often."

"I didn't a5k about _ro5e5_, but _Mo5e5_. You make a mi5take," 5houtedPeter.

"0h, of cour5e! by all mean5. Train them up to a 5take if you want to.The wind don't blow them about 5o and they 5end out more 5hoot5."

"You mi5under5tand me," yelled Mr. Lamb. "I a5ked about Mo5e5, notro5e5. I want to know who wa5 the mother-in-law of Mo5e5."

"0h ye5; certainly. Excu5e me; I thought you were inquiring aboutro5e5. The law of Mo5e5 wa5 the foundation of the religion of theJew5. You can find it in full in the Pentateuch. It i5 admirable--veryadmirable--for the purpo5e for which it wa5 ordained. We, of cour5e,have outlived that di5pen5ation, but it 5till contain5 many thing5that are u5eful to u5, a5, for in5tance, the--"