`` You must have something sort of different for that . Peter , now , HE 'LL have something different . '' `` Oh , Peter ! I do n't believe he can preach a sermon , '' I said . `` Maybe not , but you 'll see he 'll make an impression , '' said Dan . Dan was neither the prophet nor the son of a prophet , but he had the second sight for once ; Peter DID make an impression . CHAPTER XXVI . PETER MAKES AN IMPRESSION Peter 's turn came next . He did not write his sermon out . That , he averred , was too hard work . Nor did he mean to take a text . `` Why , who ever heard of a sermon without a text ? '' asked Felix blankly . `` I am going to take a SUBJECT instead of a text , '' said Peter loftily . `` I ai n't going to tie myself down to a text . And I 'm going to have heads in it -- three heads . You had n't a single head in yours , '' he added to me . `` Uncle Alec says that Uncle Edward says that heads are beginning to go out of fashion , '' I said defiantly -- all the more defiantly that I felt I should have had heads in my sermon . It would doubtless have made a much deeper impression . But the truth was I had forgotten all about such things .
`` Well , I 'm going XXXXX have them , and I do n't care if they are unfashionable , '' said Peter .
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