Why, read your prayer-book. Why, of course, the Church,
Speaks through its ministers.”
“If you speak then,”
Inquired I, trembling,—“give advice to us,
Is that the last resort?—must one obey?”
“Why, that depends,” he said;—“but, dear me, child,
You must not think us bears! We growl at times
In sermons, eh?—But then, dear me, dear me,
We would not eat our flock up, little lamb!—
But come,” he added, “come; enough of this;