CHAPTER X.

TRADITIONS OF THE RURAL CHURCH.

The Story of the “Raised” Biscuits--The Small Boy Who Scandalized the Congregation--The “Driveling Idiot”--The Love-Cracked Suicide--“There is a Lion in the Way”--The Man Who Borrowed “Arabian Nights” from a Christian Woman--The Woman Who Was Not Going to be a Pack Horse--The Enterprising Deacon Who Proposed at the Grave 196-215