"The pudding bell," as country folks sometimes call it (under the
impression that its use is to warn those at home to get the dinner ready),
is still rung in some of the old Lancashire parish churches as the
congregation go out. But as in this county parish churches are scarce, and
two full services quite a matter of course, W. S.'s {568} reason cannot
apply here. I remember well the custom of the congregations _kneeling_ when
the Lord's Prayer occurred in the lesson; it was left off in my own church
about thirty years since, this custom, curtseying at the "Gloria," and some
others, being considered _ignorant_, and therefore discountenanced by those
who knew better.