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`` You bet , '' said the boy , as he put his crutches under his arms , and started for the door . `` A minister may be sound on the Atonement , but he do n't want to saw on an old pacer . He may have the subject of infant baptism down finer than a cambric needle , but if he has ever been to college , he ought to have learned enough not to say ' _ ye up _ ' to an old pacer that has been the boss of the road in his time . A minister may be endowed with sublime power to draw sinners to repentance , and make them feel like getting up and dusting for the beautiful beyond , and cause them , by his eloquence , to see angles bright and fair in their dreams , and chariots of fire flying through the pearly gates and down the golden streets of New Jerusalem , but he wants to turn out for a street car all the same , when he is driving a 2:20 pacer . The next time I drive a minister to a funeral , he will walk , '' and the boy hobbled out and hung out a sign in front of the grocery : SMOKED DOG FISH AT HALIBUT PRICES , GOOD ENOUGH FOR COMPANY . `` There , you drop that , '' said the groceryman to the bad boy , as he came limping into the store , and began to fumble around a box of strawberries . `` I have never kicked at your eating my codfish , and crackers and cheese , and herring , and apples , but there has got to be a dividing line somewhere , and I make it at strawberries at six shillings a box , and only two layers in a box .