An Old-time Meeting House

Uneasy girls and mischievous boys think it hard Ui at they shoulcl fee compelled to remain quiet during the one hour and a half of the modern churcb services. Their coroplaints may be: tnoderated by reading the following description of church services in New Englaiul 200 years ago, when the prayer was alraost au hour long, and allí stood : On fout, on horseback, singly or era pillions. (soma of the old women and little cliildien in ox-carts, peibaps), they come. Sorae tie their beasts to the palings, others onder houses they have bad leave to build near by. Entering the meeting-house Ihey take their allotted places- all the married men and women, the elierly people, and civil and military dignitaries in the seats and pevvs below, accordingto rule ; the unmanied of both sexes in the gallerics, vvilh a paling between theni ; boys under jixteen on the pulpit and gallery , '' the bitter are not yet removed to the tower : otherwiac iii "hinde" seats, or corner pews iu the gaileries - always with tytbitig-men, "to keep them" from playing or sleeping." The younger ehildren on litlle beuches in the aisles by tho side of the pews or Beats, hilo whieh they often creep to huddle around the rnother's foot-stove.. Those who are too youiig to sit alone are ín little cages in the pews close to tUeh' mathers. Tho uegroes, slaves or f ree - every town has several of botb, are on wall-benches in the gallery- men and women apart, of course; iii the upper one, i f there are two tiers of gaileries, or perhaps their dark faces are peering out, f rom those two queer crannies opening upon the gallery from the tower. These are two square pews built for them at the head of each staircase in the tower, from which they are entered. They are sufficieatly elevated above the gallery pews to be very conspieuous from below. They are arched over the topt. balustrated in front, and so arranged asto prevent any communication with the other seats in the gallery. The boys cali them the "swallows' nests.' ' Very near the pulpit on each side sit the aged deaf - the men ou the rigtat, the women on the left; adjoining the pulpit in front, the elders, if there be any; a step lower down; the two deacons in their respective seats. The most elderly man of most distinguished birth or service in the community is honored with a seat at communion table- he, as wen as tne eiaers and deacons, facing the congregation. About the doorways the guard is seated, each man with his bandoleer slung over his shoulders, his matchlock close at hand. There is a rustle at the door. lt is the minister 'i No - two constables leading in a culpritl He weara a white cap ou whioh sin is written and is placed conspicuously on the stool of repentnnee. . -.. A lady wlio was suffering iindei a süght indisposition told her huaband tüat it was with the greatest difliculty she could breathe, and the elïort distressed her exeeedingly. "I wouidn't try, íTiy dear,"80othingly responded the husband. An oíd East Indian relates that hè ouce asked the staüoumaster ut Delhi whether the twelve o'clock train from Oalcutta was in. "Which," was his reply, "today's oryesterday's? They're both due, but yesterday's isn't in yet." An intelligent youtb, recently engaged in a commercial office, made out a shipping bilí for "fourty" barrels of llour. His employer called his attention to an error in the spelling of forty, "Sure enough." replied the promising elerk, "I left out the gh,"