Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1882 — He Was Embarrassed. [ARTICLE]

He Was Embarrassed.

The Rev. Mr. was one of the most-bashful men in the profession and was constantly getting into scrapes through his nervous mistakes. At one time he rose in his pulpit to give out the hymn, “This world is all a fleeting show,” and after clearing his throat he struck a high pitch of voice and liegan solemnly: “This world is all a floating shoe ” Everybody smiled except the deacons, and the minister was covered wit'.i confusion as he began again: “This world is all a shouting flow.” This only made matters worse, and the unhappy man cleared his throat with tremendous force and began once again: “This world is all a floating she.” Then he slammed the hymn-book down, and, wiping his clammy brow, said: “Brethren, for some reason I cannot read that hymn as it should be read; we will omit it and the choir will please sing the grand old lines beginning: “Just as I am without one flea?'— trail Post,