"Why, what has the church to do with a barrel-organ?"
"Don't you believe the Bible?"
"Of course," said the Senator, looking mystified.
"Don't you know what it says on the subject?"
"What the Bible says? Why no, of course not. It says nothing."
"I beg your pardon. It says, 'The sound of the grinding is low.' See Ecclesiastes, twelfth, fourth."
The Senator looked mystified, but said nothing. But suddenly the organ-grinder struck up another tune.
"Well, I do declare," cried the Senator, delighted, "if it isn't another domestic melody!"
It was "Independence Day."
"Why, it warms my heart," he said, as a flush spread over his fine countenance.