The Minister’s Reception — 319
A certain lady one day had been much annoyed by the ringing of her door-bell by the mischievous boys in the vicinity, and determined to be made no more a fool of by going to the door. In the course of the forenoon, however, her minister called to see her, dressed in his nicest manner. He ascended the steps, and gently drew the bell-handle, when the lady shouted from the entry—“I see you, my boy! if I catch you I’ll wring your neck!” The affrighted gentleman rushed down the steps through a crowd of young scamps, and was not seen at the lady’s house again.