A VILLAGE CHRISTENING.
"What name do you give this child?" asked the clergyman. • " John Ananias Jones," replied the proud father of the kicking infant who was about to be christened. "I refuse to christen the child in the name of Ananias.. Do you know who Ananias was?" protested the clergyman. " No, I don't; an' I don't care who he was" replied the father. "But he was the greatest liar in Bible history?? said the shocked clergyman. " Never you mind," retorted the father; "my kid ain't no liar. 1 wants 'im named Ananias 'cos I likes the sound, pf it." "1 won't do it!" said the. cjergyman determinedly. ;' I will christen the child John Hezekiah Jones!" And he did so, sprinkling water on the infant's face with the utterance of each name. " An' I rubs out the middle splash," said the father, just as determined, as he first wiped the water off his offspring's nose with his coat-sleeve and afterwards sprinkled more on, "an' I christens the Ananias Jones. So there!"
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Evening Star, Issue 11434, 29 December 1900, Page 8
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170A VILLAGE CHRISTENING. Evening Star, Issue 11434, 29 December 1900, Page 8
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