The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42
An Auctioneer
An Auctioneer
getting the bronchitis, nor the second mate on a steamboat—never. What gives it to the minister is talking solemnly when they don't feel that way, and it has the same influence upon the organs of speech that it would have upon the cords of the calves of your legs to walk on your tip-toes, and so I call bronchitis "parsonitis." And if the ministers would all tell exactly what they think they would all get well, but keeping back a part of the truth is what gives them bronchitis.
"Boys, if it was God's will that you should go to hell, would you be willing to go?"
And every little fellow said,
"Yes, sir."
Then in order to tell how long we would stay there, he used to say,
"Suppose once