“Whoy, ’ee were a-rootlin i’ the Psawms!”
Of course these varied reminiscences were not all produced at one meeting; they were spread over many years, and some recurred more than once, more than twice. The story about Dick, the blower, for instance, was a hardy annual, and if the Rector had not produced it in any year, I should have been aggrieved.
FOOTNOTES:
[27] His official rank was succentor, the precentor being a Canon; but in Sudchester the full title is always conceded.
[28] “Services”—with a capital S—stands for the Canticles, and the musical setting of the Communion Service.
[29] “Carmenque Christo, quasi deo, dicere secum invicem.”—Pliny, x. 97.
[30] The verse runs thus in the hymn-book:
“Trust in God, and borrow
Ease for heart and mind.”
[31] This custom exists at other old foundations; St. Paul’s, York, &c.