Strange Survivals - Some Chapters in the History of Man
- ISBN-10
- 1533201544
- ISBN-13
- 9781533201546
- Pages
- 198
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-05-12
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Author
- S. Baring-Gould
Description
Excerpt from Chapter 1: When the writer was a parson in Yorkshire, he had in his parish a blacksmith blessed, or afflicted-which shall we say?-with seven daughters and not a son. Now the parish was a newly constituted one, and it had a temporary licensed service room; but during the week before the newly erected church was to be consecrated, the blacksmith's wife presented her husband with a boy-his first boy. Then the blacksmith came to the parson, and the following conversation ensued: - Blacksmith: "Please, sir, I've gotten a little lad at last, and I want to have him baptised on Sunday." Parson: "Why, Joseph, put it off till Thursday, when the new church will be consecrated; then your little man will be the first child christened in the new font in the new church.
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