'It's much too hot to stay indoors this lovely day, we'll all go out and
sit in the shade in the meadow.'
The children were frightfully bucked, and when they were all seated
daddy said,--
'Now, somebody choose a hymn.'
Tommy Vellacott said he would like the one about the little boy who
stole the old gentleman's watch. Father, with great difficulty,
discovered that he meant
'The old man, meek and mild.
The Priest of Israel slept.
_His watch_ the Temple child
The little Levite _kept_.'