ARDUOUS BAPTISM.

An infant was brought for baptism into a country church. The clergyman,

who had just been drinking with his friends a more than usual quantum of

the genial juice, could not find the place of the baptism in his ritual,

and exclaimed, as he was turning over the leaves of the book, "How

difficult this child is to baptize!"

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