After speaking a few words the father kneeled down on his knees and said certain prayers. Then came the executioner and bound a handkerchief about his eyes. This holy father, lifting up his hands and heart to heaven, said a few other prayers, which were not long but fervent and devout, which being ended, he laid his holy head down over the midst of a little block.… And so his immortal soul mounted to the blissful joys of Heaven.
—The Rev. T. E. Bridgett, C. SS. R.
THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE GLOWWORM
| appetite | eagerly | harangued | minstrelsy |
| eloquent | abhor | oration | approbation |
A nightingale, that all day long
Had cheered the village with his song,
Nor yet at eve his note suspended,
Nor yet when eventide was ended,
Began to feel, as well he might,