ARDUOUS BAPTISM.

An infant was brought for baptism into a country church. The clergyman,
who had just been drinking with his friends a more than usual quantum of
the genial juice, could not find the place of the baptism in his ritual,
and exclaimed, as he was turning over the leaves of the book, "How
difficult this child is to baptize!"

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DULL READING.

St. Jerome says, that there is no book so dull, but it meets a suitable
dull reader. "_Nullus est imperitus scriptor, qui lectorem non
inveniat_."

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