The Church-Goer Rural Rides; or, Calls at Country Churches

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JCtje DETERMINES AT THE DORCAS ON DOING SOMETHING. Knock after knock at the door announced every ten minutes a new accession to the number of our visitors: they were ladies of all ages, hut I was the only Lord of the Creation amongst them, and the attention and praise they bestowed upon me was enough to...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JCtje DETERMINES AT THE DORCAS ON DOING SOMETHING. Knock after knock at the door announced every ten minutes a new accession to the number of our visitors: they were ladies of all ages, hut I was the only Lord of the Creation amongst them, and the attention and praise they bestowed upon me was enough to turn any old man's head. They worked away meanwhile, and laughed and talked of the respective merits of their respective Ministers, of visiting societies, the affairs of the parish, Evangelicals, Puseyites, Popery, the probability of the curate's being married, of stone altars, and love matches, until they talked themselves out of breath, and then inquired if I would be kind enough to read something interesting and useful. I said that before leaving home I had made an extract from a work which I thought possessed some interest and advantage for ladies. The Roman population did not call on Mark Anthony to read Cesar's will with more energy than my fair companions did on me to proceed with my extract. Some delightful little scrap, as one of them ventured to anticipate, from the Old Fathers. I did not undeceive her, but read as follows: ? Making tea is a very simple process, and consists merely of pouring boiling water upon the leaf. In making both tea and coffee, I believe it is better to use water which has only just boiled, than that which Las been long over the fire. The latter, I fancy, has something vapidabout it, but of this I am not certain. Soft water I have always understood to be preferable to hard. It is scarcely necessary to say that in order to make good tea, it is requisite to provide a good material. The process I should recommend, as most certain to prove satisfactory, is as follows. Have a kettle in the room. As soon as the water boils, pour some in...