expenses exceed it."

"But you know as well as I do that he cannot live on four hundred
dollars a year."

"I don't know any such thing, friend Elder. But I do know, that
there are hundreds and thousands who live on much less, and save a
little into the bargain. That, however, is neither here nor there.
Four hundred dollars a year is all this parish can afford to pay a
minister, and that Mr. Malcolm was distinctly told before he came.
If he could not live on the salary offered, why did he come? Mr.
Pelton never received more."

"Beg your pardon, Mr. Larkin. Mr. Pelton never received less than
seven hundred dollars a year. There were always extra subscriptions
made for him."

"I never gave any thing more than my regular subscription and
pew-rent."

"It is more than I can say, then. In presents of one kind and
another and in money it never cost me less than from fifty to
seventy-five dollars a year extra. Having been in the vestry for the
last ten years, I happen to know that there was always something to
make up at the end of the year, and it generally came out of the
pockets of a few."

"Well, it isn't right, that is all I have to say," returned Mr.
Larkin. "A minister has no business to saddle himself upon a
congregation in that way for less than his real weight. It's an